Bev Brown has been nursing sick and injured gray-headed flying foxes back to health ever since someone dropped a baby bat off at her house 16 years ago. In 2018, she earned the Order of Australia ...

Flying foxes are dying en masse in Australia’s extreme heat. ... Gray-headed flying foxes hang in trees in Yarra Bend Park. About 30,000 of the bats lived in the colony here before December 2019.

Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, nurturing a flying-fox was seen by the majority of fruit growers as on a par with giving succour to terrorists. In 2001, grey-headed flying-foxes were listed as ...

Wildlife carers say grey-headed flying foxes are "amazing creatures" — but the species is dying at an alarming rate, and they're running out of volunteers to help save them.

A historic heat wave in Australia killed off thousands of flying foxes late last year. In Australia’s northern coast, temperatures reached over 107 degrees for several days, leading to the ...

Recently, however, Australia's flying foxes have more going against them than just their bad reputations. ... hanging upside down as their keepers go about their housework.

The grey-headed flying fox is listed as “vulnerable” on Australia’s environmental protection list and the maximum penalty for killing 10 or more of the rare bat is a $126,150 fine or a year ...

Feb. 3 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in Australia responded to a hotel where a bat apparently attempted to take a drink from the swimming pool and became trapped in the water.Kate CJ Murphy, president ...

While the US begins to recover from record low temperatures, Australia is facing a deadly heat wave that is killing thousands of large bats, called flying foxes. CNN values your feedback 1.

01/07/2021 January 7, 2021. Australian towns have made headlines complaining of "bat tornadoes." But ecologists say flying foxes are vital to preserving forest and need protection from climate ...

Australia is home to several species of flying foxes. The species affected in Campbelltown is the grey-headed flying fox, a species listed as vulnerable and the largest bat in Australia.