Climate Change Brings Another Species Closer to Extinction
#Environment #ClimateChange #Australia #Bats
#GlobalHeating #BiodiversityLoss #ExtinctionCrisis #FlyingFoxes #GreyHeadedFlyingFox #Heatwave #EnvironmentalCrisis #Wildlife #NatureInCrisis
https://the-14.com/climate-change-brings-another-species-closer-to-extinction/

More than 80% of flying fox colony wiped out as January heatwaves kill thousands of bats >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/05/flying-foxes-january-heatwaves-kill-thousands
#FlyingFoxes #bats #heatwaves #FossilFuels #climate #MassMortalityEvents #pollinators #biodiversity

Rare photos of #FlyingFoxes cooling down in a river during the day: https://zorz.it/NolsB

#JessicaStewart #NocturnalAnimals #HardikShelat #WildlifePhotographer #IndianFruitBats #Gujarat #India #photos

https://www.fogolf.com/1149840/mass-wildlife-rescue-underway-with-flying-foxes-entangled-at-golf-club-driving-range/ Mass wildlife rescue underway with flying foxes entangled at golf club driving range #AustraliaZoo #bats #entangled #FlyingFoxes #Golf #GolfNews #Noosa #NoosaGolfClub #WildlifeHospital

Petra Stock: Flying foxes die in their thousands in worst mass-mortality event since Australia’s black summer. Volunteers found thousands of dead bats at Melbourne’s Brimbank park, wildlife expert says

#climatechange #Melbourne #Australia #Flyingfoxes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/12/flying-foxes-die-in-their-thousands-in-worst-mass-mortality-event-since-australias-black-summer

Grey headed flying foxes heading out to feed. #Bega #FlyingFoxes #GreyHeadedFlyingFoxes

Wrap Artists of the Year
Rescued baby flying foxes rest, wrapped up, after being injured by giant hailstones, some as large as a cricket ball, in Queensland storms, #Australia, in November. Almost 120 fruit bats (as they are also known) were injured, some critically, before being rescued by volunteers and admitted to the RSPCA wildlife hospital.

Photograph: RSPCA Queensland

#photography
#AnimalRescue
#FruitBats
#FlyingFoxes
#bats

Plantation owners call for killing permits for native flying foxes

"Currently, farmers with a permit can kill up to eight grey-headed, 45 black and 50 little red flying foxes annually, and must report each death."

"[Flying foxes] are a native species … they are our only long-distance night pollinators. Flying foxes are losing a lot of their normal habitat, forcing them inland, and so they take risky actions to get food like going into yards and orchards."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-09-22/farmers-call-for-rethink-on-shooting-permits-for-flying-foxes/105788750
#Plantations #food #netting #ExclusionNetting #CostOfDoingBusiness #CODB #monoculture #biodiversity #bats #FlyingFoxes #pollinators #conservation #wildlife

Endangered spectacled flying foxes and vulnerable grey-headed flying foxes - misinformation is rife

"Tim Pearson, a wildlife ecologist who specialises in flying fox behaviour and communication, says the “double whammy” of destroying native forests while providing alternative food sources in farms and residential areas creates the potential for human-bat conflict and harassment, identified as a threat in recovery plans for endangered spectacled flying foxes and vulnerable grey-headed flying foxes."

“The Australian attitude towards wildlife has always been positive, providing it doesn’t inconvenience you...Unfortunately for flying foxes, in their case it often does. Things have been getting better, Pearson says, but flare-ups still occur when practical concerns – about noise, the animals’ impact on fruit growers, power outages or potential disease threats – are reported in breathless terms by the media. At worst they’re vilified and face a constant battle of disinformation, hate speech and are even persecuted.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/03/australia-flying-foxes-endangered-species-list
#bats #FlyingFoxes #persecution #wildlife #dispersal #harassment #coexistence #NSWLogging #HateSpeech #MSM #ShiftingAttitudes #biodiversity #destruction

The golden-crowned #FlyingFoxes are crucial for #Boracay’s ecosystem. They help regenerate #forests by dispersing seeds and control #pests by eating thousands of #mosquitoes daily, reducing the risk of mosquito-borne diseases like #dengue. #Philippines

Save Boracay’s #FruitBats, environmentalists appeal to DENR, local officials
https://www.rappler.com/philippines/visayas/save-boracay-fruit-bats-environmentalists-appeal/

Starving flying foxes forced to search backyards and get trapped by fruit tree netting

"They're coming into town more often, largely because humans have cut down their forests.They prefer to eat blossoms from eucalypt trees but when they're really hungry they will eat things like backyard fruit and that's the reason why we're seeing them come into cities."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-25/fruit-tree-netting-ban-canberra-protect-flying-foxes/103872532
#bats #FlyingFoxes #pollinators #LoggingImpacts #deforestation #wildlife #biodiversity #plastic #traps

Koalas depend on bats

"Without the bats, the koalas wouldn't have the trees. So the bats are the ones that are fertilising those big eucalypts that koalas love."

"A lot of people overseas when they think of Australia, they think of koalas." In Australia "there's ...a lack of awareness about the role of bats in controlling insect populations, pollinating plants and spreading seeds, much like birds and bees do."

"Perceptions have consequences: The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) says more than half of the state's species are in decline, or their status is unknown, due to a lack of research."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-28/australia-bats-poor-reputation-covid-links-and-vampire-myths/103669082
#koalas #bats #FlyingFoxes #eucalypts #mining #misconception #superstition #EcologicalLiteracy

This year's little red flying fox (fruit bat) colony is huge! In 24 years here, I've never seen it this big. This photo shows the usual encampment alongside the western edge of Stoney Creek south of the bridge, but it doesn't usually go right to the creek's edge.

And this year they've crossed the creek, and also moved into the wetlands area north east of the bridge.

At dusk, the whole sky seems to be filled with bats.

#bats #FruitBats #FlyingFoxes #WildOz #LakeMacquarie #NewcastleAU

Simbalito on #GrandTour on the #Seychelles: after a long #travel I had a short #hedgewatch on the #beach in the twilight & I saw #Batman🙀 No not Batman😹 but #FlyingFoxes/#MegaBates/#FruitBates/#Flughunde... Pawsome 🐾 I need to get better pictures...

#animals #nature #bat #wildlife #wildlifephotographie

Bird count at dusk started with flocks of ibis and rainbow lorikeets flying home to sleep and ended with 100s of fruit bat heading off for a night of eating and shagging down at the coast #GreatAussieBirdCount23 #AustralianWildlife #AustralianBirds #Birds #birdsOfOz #bats #FruitBats #FlyingFoxes