Flying foxes are a vital part of Australian ecosystems

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• ‘I don’t know where else to turn’: the grey-headed flying foxes driving rural towns batty, 22 December

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• Listed as vulnerable by the NSW government in 2001
• loss of habitat due to land clearing and bushfires - PDF
• hundreds of dead bats
• significant migration into central NSW - PDF
• Inverell
• Armidale
• 150,000 grey-headed flying foxes turned up in Tamworth
• Pearson says dispersing camps with noise or removing trees doesn’t provide a permanent solution
• A 2016 federal government inquiry
• risks of contracting lyssavirus
• pushback against flying fox dispersal
• NSW government subsidies for exclusion netting
• flying fox camps that have dispersed long-term without intervention