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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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.
This is barbed wire in a high-risk area - the flying fox has come in to feed on the flowering bottle brush and hasn't seen the barbed wire in the dark
If you have barbed wire in a high risk area - near a feeding site like a flowering shrub or tree or water - you can put some reflective tags/tape on the top strand and easily solve this problem (and you'll be helping owls and possums as well)
🦇 PLEASE KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR FLYING FOXES. There is an east coast food crisis. As flying foxes desperately search for food, they’re at greater risk of entanglement in barbed wire near flowering &fruiting trees.
📷 Catherine Foot
PLEASE REPORT ASAP: • Bats trapped in cocos palms (it rips their wings), Bats trapped in fruit tree netting or barbed wire. • Baby bats alone, on the ground or beneath trees. • Unusual numbers of bats feeding in the daytime
PLEASE REPORT ASAP: • Flying foxes alone during the day, hanging low, on the ground or dead. A pup may be hidden beneath mum’s wing. • Bats on powerlines, as a pup may be clinging to mum
🦇FOUND A BAT IN DISTRESS? Keep people and pets away and contact a trained rescuer ASAP: Wildlife Victoria: 03 8400 7300 | Fly By Night Bat Clinic Victoria: 0409 530 541 | Moonshadow Flying Fox Rescue & Rehabilitation Centre: 0429 930 138 | Animalia Wildlife Shelter 0435822699
If barb wire is near flowering or fruiting trees, you can add white tags, reflective tape or cloth strips to make it more visible to bats &other nocturnal wildlife NEVER ATTEMPT A RESCUE YOURSELF Entangled bats must only be handled by experienced, vaccinated rescuers. Report ASAP
Unfolding horror
abc.net.au/news/2026-10-17/s…
Across VIC massive critical minerals developments threaten farming, landscapes, local economies and ground and water supplies - send an email here melbournefoe.org.au/moratori…
Send an email - Let your elected reps know it’s time for a REAL end to native forest logging. All the info is on the link
vnpa.org.au/close-the-loggin…
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…
As logging trucks continue to stream up the region's highways, the practice is facing scrutiny from locals and independent scientists. They are questioning whether eco-thinning is just native forest logging under another name.
abc.net.au/news/2026-08-25/e…
📷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
geg.org.au/casey-ck-2021
When 4Corners aired TimberTurmoil, about the native logging industry, many were shocked by what they saw billions in subsidies, murky financial arrangements, environmental destruction But for a small few of us there was no shock. Only a familiar ache womensagenda.com.au/latest/i…
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. mfgfundraising.org/adopt-a-t…
#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 & the risks it poses to the environment, waterways, wildlife and local communities
mfgfundraising.org/
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