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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland

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Working the night shift for protection, conservation and education for bats and their habitat on the unceded lands of Gunnai Kurnai, Ngarigo and Bidwell nations

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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If fuel breaks will have a limited effect on stopping fire spotting and may potentially contribute to crown fires, why are they being constructed? One reason is that firebreak construction provides a source of timber for the native forest logging industry johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08...
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Do 'fuel breaks' stack up for us and our forests?
Victoria plans thousands of kilometres of fuel breaks, but evidence suggests they could damage endangered forests, increase carbon emissions and deliver limited protection against the most dangerous b...
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📷2021 #FFMV's large 'low intensity autumn burn' trickled through the forest and creeks and destroyed hundreds of old trees, the very structure of the old growth forest #GunaiKurnaiCountry www.geg.org.au/casey-ck-2021
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Hundreds of old trees destroyed | GunaiKurnai Country
Forest Fire Management, VicForests and TAFE Gippsland destroy old growth forest near Lakes Entrance
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Adopt a tree. Keep Glenaladale Mine-Free #GunaiKurnaiCountry: The proposed mine threatens over 800 significant trees - they survive in one of the most most endangered ecosystems, where less than 0.5% of the original woodland and grassland extent remains www.mfgfundraising.org/adopt-a-tree
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Adopt a Tree to keep Glenaladale Mine Free
Support the campaign to keep Glenaladale mine free
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#GunaiKurnaiCountry Mine-free Glenaladale needs your support in the ongoing fight against the proposed Fingerboards Mineral Sands Mine in East Gippsland. We oppose this mine and the risks it poses to the environment, farmland, waterways, wildlife and local communities www.mfgfundraising.org
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Stop the Fingerboards Mineral Sands Mine
Help Protect Glenaladale from the Fingerboards Mineral Sands Mine. Donate, adopt a tree or shop to help protect this environment
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
RSVP to reserve your spot 👉🏼https://events.humanitix.com/planned-burns-and-community-safety
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#GunaiKurnaiCountry: Forest Friends Thousands of Grey-headed Flying-foxes take to the skies, travelling across foothills and coastal forests in search of nectar and pollen. In abundant flowering seasons-known as pollination years-these remarkable animals help keep forests healthy
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#GunaiKurnaiCountry: There are a lot of flying foxes in Bairnsdale right now and we think its because there’s lots of ironbark (E.tricarpa) and redbox (E.polyanthemos) flowering in foothills and coastal forests, in such abundance like we haven't seen for some years
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“It means that disturbances to their habitat or habitat loss might be more severe than we thought,” Wagner said. In fragmented or less dense forests, there would be more gaps to cross, he said www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Greater gliders not as great at gliding as thought – but still look like magic carpets, experts say
While new study challenges assumptions about how far they travel, witnessing them in action still takes your breath away, scientists say
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🦇 Across Australia, wildlife carers and volunteers continue to respond to extreme heat events — often with limited resources and coordination. Rescue teams monitor bat colonies during extreme heat, spray water to help cool bats, and care for orphaned pups www.merlintuttle.org/what-extreme...
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What Extreme Heat Means for Australia’s Flying-Foxes — and How People are Helping - Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation
A Disturbing Scene Beneath the Trees During recent heatwaves across southeastern Australia, heartbreaking scenes unfolded in grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) colonies. As temperatures s...
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Lakes Entrance: Join fire behaviour scientist, Dr Philip Zylstra for a deep dive into what happens when forests are burned. Dr Zylstra presents recent fire research on effectiveness of planned burns in reducing bushfire risk events.humanitix.com/planned-burn...
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
#GunaiKurnaiCountry 🦇Bat of the day Grey-headed flying -fox
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
#GunaiKurnaiCountry We think there are so many flying foxes in Bairnsdale right now due to the incredible flowering of both Ironbark (Euc.tricarpa) and Red Box (Euc.Polyanthemus) we're seeing in the foothills and coastal forests
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
#GunaiKurnaiCountry Night survey in an unburnt section of Providence Ponds Flora and Fauna Reserve and the Red Box (Euc. polyanthemos) are really flowering in abundance!
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
As the economic and ecological ruin of native forest logging is exposed, evidence of illegal surveillance and threats adds to the case for a royal commission. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...
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The case for a royal commission into native logging
ANALYSIS: As the economic and ecological ruin of native forest logging is exposed, evidence of illegal surveillance and threats adds to the case for a royal commission.
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#GunaiKurnaiCountry 🦇 Grey-headed flying foxes are called an ‘umbrella species’, because so many plants and animals live under their work. Their job is forest building and they are a keystone species in the ecology of east coast forests
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🦇#GunaiKurnaiCountry and it's bat-o-clock! Turn the sound up, you need to hear this
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Now it’s time to act. Email those in power calling for a real transition away from native forest logging – one that closes loopholes, protects forests through law, makes sure public money supports forests, workers and communities, not business as usual envirojustice.org.au/email-the-pm...
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Email the PM to end native forest logging
Native forest logging is a national issue. Will you email the PM to end native forest logging?
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
No matter how much public money, suggestions for change and reform or recommendations for value-adding, the industry simply cannot survive without massive subsidies and handouts from government. It has been like this for decades. theconversation.com/victoria-cla...
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Victoria claims to have stopped native logging. So why is it importing Tasmanian forests?
There’s no economic or environmental case for native logging. Yet taxpayer money is still being used to support it.
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
victoriansfornature.au/take-action
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Take Action | Stop The Fuckery
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
#BreakingNews >>> Watch 4Corners tonight 8.30 ABC and iview www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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Victoria ended logging. Now it's using another state's native forests
Four Corners follows the logs, and the money, to uncover how efforts to end logging have shifted the timber trade across state borders.
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
🦇 #GunaiKurnaiCountry
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Recently #FFMV burnt a swamp, remnant old trees and young banksias in the name of community safety. In what rule book does burning a swamp protect anyone from bushfire? #GunaiKurnaiCountry #ProvidencePondsFloraFaunaReserve
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Four Corners follows the logs and the money to ask whether the industry is really ending or just shifting state borders. Don't miss 4Corners Monday 22 June at 8.30pm @ABC
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
As parts of Australia turn away from native forest logging, Four Corners follows the logs and the money to ask whether the industry is really ending or just shifting state borders >> Watch Four Corners Monday 22 June www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... via @ABCaustralia
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Timber Turmoil
Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Since 2009, including 2025, the VIC Government has issued 53,472 ATCWs for the lethal control of protected Australian wildlife, targeting 2,456,094 animals. In 2025 ATCW permits for lethal control targeted 230,673 protected Australia native animals". www.creativecowboyfilms.tv/earth/victor...
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Victoria: Number of Authorities to Control Wildlife (ATCWs) protected Australian species 2025 and cumulative since 2009
In 2025, ATCW permits for lethal control targeted 230,673 protected Australia native animals, in 2025 the number targeted for lethal control using ATCWs was 2.5 times greater than in 2022
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Centuries of grazing and burning have reduced this temperate rainforest to just 27ha. That’s white folk fckery right there www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘Let these amazing forests come back to life’; push to expand England’s rainforest
Campaign comes as Duchy of Cornwall announces plan to expand small pockets of ancient woodland at two sites
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Nature in Victoria is being systematically f*cked over. Forests still being logged. National parks defunded. Ocean protections gutted. Wildlife homes carved up. Ferals running free. We’re keeping track. And pushing back. #stopthefckery www.victoriansfornature.au
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Home | Stop The Fuckery
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This damaging proposal can still be stopped. Make your voice heard before Monday 25 May. All details on the link bobbrown.org.au/get-involved...
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Stop Labor’s Native Forest Sell-Out – Bob Brown Foundation
Tell Labor to reject the logging industry’s Timber Fibre Strategy and protect native forests
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
What is a healthy forest? Many proposals to create so-called ‘healthy forests’ through thinning and repeated burning risk further damaging Australian ecosystems already degraded by logging, clearing and over-management. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...
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What is a healthy forest?
Many proposals to create so-called 'healthy forests' through thinning and repeated burning risk further damaging Australian ecosystems already degraded by logging, clearing and over-management.
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Extinction capital of the so called first world www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
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Outback cattle station granted permit to cull 20,000 native birds
A permit to cull 20,000 native birds has been granted to a cattle station in the Northern Territory in response to an "overpopulation" of destructive and "exceptionally noisy" galahs and little corell...
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"We found that individual flying foxes can literally travel thousands of kilometres a year, criss-crossing their entire range and sometimes multiple times," Dr Welbergen said. "They are not so much migratory as profoundly nomadic." www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08...
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One flying fox's 12,000km nomadic journey stuns researchers
Researchers are reviewing everything they know about the nomadic habits of flying foxes after making a stunning discovery about the huge distances distance the creatures can travel.
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“A new generation of trees is carried on the fur and the tongue, and on the wings that beat through the night carrying the animal to the tree, and carrying the tree’s gifts along to other trees.” euppublishingblog.com/2022/03/10/s...
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Shimmer: The Kiss of Life Includes Us, Too - Edinburgh University Press Blog
Eucalypts and flying-foxes come together every year with beautiful timing and exquisite generosity, giving each other great kisses that bring forth new generations of life.
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
#GunaikurnaiCountry is wild on the river tonight! Turn the sound up, you need to hear this! It's the tree friends off on the night shift
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Archives can be confronting. In hindsight, once celebrated discoveries can be understood as violent extractions animalallegories.com.au/allegories/c...
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Animal Allegories
Nature-culture stories that are experimental, visually surprising and sometimes a little strange.
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🦇 🖤 WyYung #GunaiKurnaiCountry. After dark, in the moonlight, heading north up the Clifton Creek Valley to foothills forests where ironbark, redbox and stringy barks are flowering. Really beautiful to witness this!!
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🦇A motion will soon be debated in QLD Parliament to try to restore the shooting phase out. Sign the action now and call on MPs to vote in favour of protecting flying foxes bit.ly/4l91xC7 @humaneworldaus
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"After four years since their installation none of the Gang-gang nest boxes have been used by any bird species. We now understand Gang-gangs will not use artificial nest boxes. The future of endangered Gang-gangs depends on large old hollow trees" avithera.blogspot.com/2026/03/gang...
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Gang-gang Cockatoos
Who does not have a soft spot for Gang-gangs?  The male’s forward curling bright red wispy crest, the distinctive raspy, creaking, rusty hin...
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🦇A motion will soon be debated in QLD Parliament to try to restore the shooting phase out. Sign the action now and call on MPs to vote in favour of protecting flying foxes bit.ly/4l91xC7 @humaneworldaus
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🦇 Grey-headed flying foxes are one mobile colony, from Meanjin to Kaurna Country. Essential pollinators, each year travelling and feeding on the nectar, pollen and rainforest fruit of east coast forests. Send an urgent email details on the link 👉🏽 animalsaustralia.org/our-work/wil...
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🦇 One mobile colony. From Meanjin to Kaurna Country. The last of the great mammal migrations 🦇 Let than sink in and send an urgent email. Details on the link 👉🏽 animalsaustralia.org/our-work/wil...
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🦇 Please send an email all the details on the link animalsaustralia.org/our-work/wil...
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Queensland just quietly overturned its promise to protect flying foxes
Hold the government to account now.
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
www.themonthly.com.au/march-2026/e...
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
There are 1000s of Grey headed flying foxes in Orbost right now - the beautiful southern mahoganies that grow there are flowering. Most eucalypts only truly open their flowers and produce most of their nectar at night to attract the long-distance night-time pollinator
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“Flying foxes are entering an extinction vortex, where threats compound upon each other, populations correspondingly dwindle and finally, species are extinguished – forever.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A scorching summer has left Australian wildlife on the brink, but it doesn’t have to be this way | Euan Ritchie and Jess Harwood
Unsettling predictions are now our catastrophic reality, but a brighter future is still within reach if our political leaders change course
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Flying out 🦇 #GunaiKurnaiCountry
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
🦇 #GunaiKurnaiCountry
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Pre-burn works by #FFMV have caused serious and avoidable damage in known Nowa Nowa Grevillea and Glossy Black-Cockatoo habitat. This is one of Victoria’s rarest plants, found only in the Colquhoun Forest east of Bruthen #GunaiKurnaiCountry www.geg.org.au/lyles-bk-2025
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Serious Damage by FFMV to Grevillea celata and Glossy Black-Cockatoo habitat
Statutory Non-Compliance and Unlawful Damage to Grevillea celata and Glossy Black-Cockatoo habitat
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
For more information and how you can help head here - batsoc.org.au/flying-fox-s...
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Extreme temperatures resulted in deaths in camps across South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. Grey-headed flying foxes, listed as vulnerable under federal environment laws, were the most affected. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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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
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Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @friendsofbats.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
🦇 During last week’s 42°C+ heat, the Bairnsdale flying-fox colony survived intact thanks to dedicated volunteers, supported by DEECA, monitoring conditions & running sprinklers. EGShire closed nearby footpaths to reduce stress. 🎥 mums and bubs feeding & preparing for fly-out 💕
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