Bat Conservation & Rescue QLD

Bat Conservation and Rescue Qld is a registered not-for-profit volunteer organization that works to help people understand the importance of all bat species🦇🦇

[Bat Conservation & Rescue QLD @BatsBCRQ]

Flying-foxes are the major pollinators for our native forests. They are Australia’s secret weapon against climate change & will play a critical role in helping restore the land destroyed by the 2019/20 bushfires. #bats #NoMeNoTree #Australia #Queensland #ClimateEmergency 🦇🌳🌼

[Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @FriendsBats]

“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
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[Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @FriendsBats]

#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

[Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @FriendsBats]

🦇#GunaiKurnaiCountry and it's bat-o-clock! Turn the sound up, you need to hear this

[Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @FriendsBats]

🦇 #GunaiKurnaiCountry

[Australasian Bat Society @AusBats]

🦇MEDIA
Wednesday 31st December 2025
Thank you ABS member Rebecca for speaking to ABC News Breakfast this morning!
#ausbats #bats #🦇

[Bat Conservation & Rescue QLD @BatsBCRQ]

Hail storms have injured and orphaned hundreds of bats. If you would like to help our team of volunteers who are helping rescue, transport & rehabilitate these bats, please donate https://t.co/O9ThYKrWeM

#bats #flyingfox #biodiversity

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[Australasian Bat Society @AusBats]

🦇News
“Threatened microbat living in urban Illawarra stuns scientists”

https://t.co/9FX8TNPCNX
#ausbats #bats

[IBRC2025 @IBRC2025]

Heidi Kolkert presenting “A jaunt into the ecosystem services provided by bats in cotton, berries and grapes and the economic value to the Australian cotton industry”
#ibrc2025

[Andrew Bartlett @AndrewBartlett]

At the 20th International Bat Research Conference in Cairns all week #IBRC I’ve seen talks so far on bats & bat habitat (urban & forested) from Mauritius, Micronesia, Estonia & Samford, as well as road culverts in Brisbane

[IBRC2025 @IBRC2025]

From the University of Southern Queensland- Vanessa Gorecki presenting “From caves to culverts: Use of road culverts by trawling bats in an urban environment”.
#ibrc2025

[IBRC2025 @IBRC2025]

Ready to go!
Thank you @batsandtreessocietyofcairns for the video 🦇
#ibrc2025

[Bat Conservation & Rescue QLD @BatsBCRQ]

One of the rehabilitated mums flying laps in our transition cage before being released in the next few days.
#bats #wildlife #biodiversity #KeystoneSpecies

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@FriendsBats Tewantin QLD

[The Museum of Curiosities @CuriosMuseum]

Bat from the Art of Falconry (De Arte Venandi Cum Avibus), a Latin ornithology book originally published in 1241 by Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor from 1196-1250.

[Bat Conservation & Rescue QLD @BatsBCRQ]

“The loveliness of flying foxes, their sheer beauty, astonishing biology, the amazing anatomy – it never ceases to amaze me.”

#bats #biodiversity
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[Bat Conservation & Rescue QLD @BatsBCRQ]

Many of us use #bats as part of our #Halloween📷📷 decorations. This Halloween, please consider also giving some support to the survival of bats big and small by donating to Bat Conservation & Rescue Qld https://t.co/O9ThYKrWeM

[Bat Conservation & Rescue QLD @BatsBCRQ]

Mining offset scheme in the Pilbara leaves threatened species at risk, including the ghost bat - Australia’s largest carnivorous bat - & the Pilbara leaf-nosed bat, which is found only in the local region.

Protecting habitat is crucial for all #bats.

https://t.co/w38DOti31a

[Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @FriendsBats]

Summer forecasts aren’t looking good for flying foxes who can die in epic proportions in extreme heat - or the rest of us 🥵

https://t.co/VFxFScAgKE

[Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @FriendsBats]

Vale Bob McDonald. Bob was a naturalist & activist who dedicated his life to the protection of native flora & fauna. He was one of the first to stand up for the flying fox colony in Bairnsdale when the forces were activating to cut the entire roost down