{"id":7141,"date":"2023-03-20T13:46:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T02:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/?p=7141"},"modified":"2023-03-20T14:20:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T03:20:33","slug":"rakali-friendly-wetland-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/rakali-friendly-wetland-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakali-friendly Wetland Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Produced by the Australian Platypus Conservancy, 9 pages.<\/p>\n<p>On 9 February 2023, the Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists had a great webinar on Rakali (Australian Water-rat) with Geoff Williams from the Australian Platypus Conservancy.<\/p>\n<p>Rakali have had a bit of a bad rap over time, probably because of its name \u2018rat\u2019 rather than \u2018otter\u2019 which would better suit its appearance as a very cute animal.<\/p>\n<p>The rakali is very well adapted to make use of aquatic habitats. It has partly webbed hind feet, water-repellent fur, a stream-lined body and a thick, furry tail used as a rudder while swimming. It is also a habitat generalist, that can be found in both running and static water bodies and will feed in a wide range of man-made reservoirs, including farm dams and constructed lakes and wetlands.<\/p>\n<p>These water bodies can make a significant difference to the long-term viability of a regional rakali population.<\/p>\n<p>This publication provides recommendations on how best to design, modify and manage water bodies to best meet the needs of rakali populations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mli.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rakali-friendly-Wetland-Design-2023.pdf\">Rakali-friendly Wetland Design (2023)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Produced by the Australian Platypus Conservancy, 9 pages. On 9 February 2023, the Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists had a great webinar on Rakali (Australian Water-rat) with Geoff Williams from the Australian Platypus Conservancy. Rakali have had a bit of a bad rap over time, probably because of its name \u2018rat\u2019 rather than \u2018otter\u2019 which would better&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","iawp_total_views":21,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[108,170,122],"class_list":["post-7141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides-and-reports","tag-dams","tag-murrumbidgee-field-naturalists","tag-riparian-management","pmpro-has-access","category-91","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7145,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions\/7145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}