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849: 51: 198:) from the sanctuary and erected a surrounding fence to preserve the sanctuary's feral-free state, completed in 1982. Warrawong was opened to the general public in 1985 with the goal of generating enough money to set up more sanctuaries. A company, Earth Sanctuaries Limited, was started in 1988 with a forty-year strategy to create a network of eighty sanctuaries, spanning all of Australia's habitats. The company was listed on the 325:. Further down the hill, there had been two breeding pairs in the previous season, and it is thought that this female was one of the offspring. Warrawong is thought to be the only remaining location of platypus on mainland South Australia. (There is an introduced population in 356: 569: 42: 533: 232:
People. However, in February 2013 Zoos South Australia announced that they had withdrawn their support for the Sanctuary due to it being an unsustainable return on their investment.
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in 2018, which covered most of the purchase price of the adjacent 5.6 ha (14-acre) Lake Cumbungi. Wamsley had created this lake as the main source of water for the
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Due to the company's poor commercial performance, Warrawong was closed for five months of 2005. In 2006 the sanctuary was bought by Anthony Miller, owner of the
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short of funds and unable to complete its network of sanctuaries in the eastern states of Australia. In 2003, part of the site was subdivided by
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region. Cameras were set up in Sturt Gorge to try to photograph the shy creatures, but did not manage to do so.
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Initially purchasing just 11 hectares (27 acres) in 2017, McPherson and Cobold were able to source another
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In 2017, the abandoned Sanctuary was purchased by Narelle MacPherson and David Cobbold, a couple from
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to power a pump to bring water uphill from Lake Cumbungi so it could flow back down and create a "
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During the mid-2000s, Earth Sanctuaries Limited was delisted from the Australian stock exchange.
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about 17 kilometres (11 mi) south-east of the centre of the state capital of
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Australian wildlife. He purchased the first 35 acres (14 ha), a degraded
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on 8 April 2000. The float was under-subscribed leaving the company
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In September 2020, a female platypus was seen nesting in the
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Warrawong Sanctuary


35°02′15″S 138°44′06″E / 35.037596°S 138.734885°E / -35.037596; 138.734885
Mylor
South Australia
Australia
www.warrawongws.com.au
South Australia
Mylor
Adelaide
John Wamsley
endangered
dairy farm
feral
foxes
platypus
Australian Stock Exchange
property developers
Gumeracha
Big Rocking Horse
Zoos South Australia
Ngarrindjeri
Peel Zoo
Pinjarra
Western Australia
platypus
Sturt Gorge Recreation Park
Sturt River
Coromandel Valley

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