Our laws failed these endangered flying-foxes at every turn. On Saturday, Cairns council will put another nail in the coffin
- Written by Justin A. Welbergen, President of the Australasian Bat Society | Associate Professor of Animal Ecology, Western Sydney University
David Pinson, CC BY-NC-NDOn Saturday, Cairns Regional Council will disperse up to 8,000 endangered spectacled flying-foxes from their nationally important camp in central Cairns.
The camp is one of the last major strongholds of the species, harbouring, on average, 12% of Australia’s remaining spectacled flying-foxes. But after recent catastro...