This morning, as I sipped my second cup of coffee and idly scrolled through LinkedIn, I stumbled across a post about platypus conservation efforts in Australia. At first, it felt completely disconnected from the world I live in—construction sites, airports, major infrastructure projects, and the complex environments that dominate my daily thoughts. Then one sentence stopped me cold: "Protecting a hard-to-detect species starts with a map, a baseline, and a plan made before dis