David Fleay Platypus Day - Sunday 11 October

The Friends of Fleays and Wildlife Queensland invite the community to join us on David Fleay Platypus Day as part of the Q150 celebrations honouring the work of pioneer conservationist David Fleay, co-founder of Wildlife Queensland. David Fleay was the first person to breed the platypus, as well as many other Australian animals and birds.

Platypus Day is a great opportunity to visit your park in a beautiful bushland setting AND it’s the only park on the Gold Coast where you can see a platypus.

The day will be opened by the Hon. Kate Jones MP, Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability. Activities will include boardwalk tours, book launch of Paradoxical Platypus (David Fleay’s classic work, republished through funding from the Queensland Government under the Q150 Community Funding Program), wildlife talks, heritage & conservation exhibits, face painting, Aboriginal dancers & art, clay modelling, live music and more.

As part of Platypus Day, children from across the Gold Coast are getting out their paintbrushes to enter the Platypus Day Art Competition before it closes on 25 September. Open to all children aged between four and eleven, entries can be in any form but must have a platypus theme. Warren Young, Chief Lifesaver GCCC, will present prizes to winning entries.

The Friends of Fleays Association, the volunteer group supporting the Park, is organising the event.

David Fleay Platypus Day is being held on Sunday 11 October 2009 at David Fleay Wildlife Park, West Burleigh Rd, West Burleigh 4219.

For more information visit the website, email friends of fleays or phone 0755762411.

David Fleay was co-founder of Wildlife Queensland in 1962.

For more information on Wildlife Queensland's activities, call us on +61 7 3221 0194 or send us an email.