Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland

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.

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In fact, available evidence suggests non-bat origins for both Ebola41,42,43 and Covid-19.

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“Despite millions of dollars invested in attempts to prove rather than test bat-origin hypotheses, we still don’t know the origins for most of the so-called emerging diseases commonly reported to be of bat origin.”
https://t.co/NJn1T2yKl0

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Centuries of grazing and burning have reduced this temperate rainforest to just 27ha. That’s white folk fckery right there

https://t.co/nS7CLa4SXz

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Nature in Victoria is being systematically f*cked over. Forests still being logged. National parks defunded. Ocean protections gutted. Wildlife homes carved up. Ferals running free. We’re keeping track. And pushing back. #stopthefckery

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There are many problems with the strategy including:
Government support for ongoing logging of native forests nationwide.
Allowing logging in national parks and conservation reserves.

Just for starters :(

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This damaging proposal can still be stopped. Make your voice heard before Monday 25 May. All details on the link

https://t.co/FMFQMih7PM

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What is a healthy forest? Many proposals to create so-called ‘healthy forests’ through thinning and repeated burning risk further damaging Australian ecosystems already degraded by logging, clearing and over-management. https://t.co/n0YHTRJavZ

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Protected areas are being smashed by #loopholelogging 👉🏾 Take action let those in charge know it’s time for a REAL end to native forest logging > https://t.co/lzJKSc0TB7

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On the highway near Lakes Entrance in Lake Tyers State Park #GunaiKurnaiCountry logging is going on in the name of fire management. #FFMV is tearing up the roadside. Their operations ignore the latest science and are conducted without scrutiny or oversight.

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Four machines are working here – paid for by your taxes #loopholelogging 👉🏾 Take action and let those in charge know it’s time for a REAL end to native forest logging https://t.co/lzJKSc0TB7

[Environment Centre NT @EnviroCentreNT]

Thousands of you have been flooding our inbox with grief and anger. Sign the petition and demand action now. 🔗https://t.co/vtw7Tm4yHI

[Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @FriendsBats]

@Aitch_El Wow! They’re certainly very vocal and very social

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We have lots of flying foxes here in Bairnsdale at the moment because in foothills and coastal forests of #GunaikurnaiCountry, lots of ironbark, redbox and stringybarks are flowering

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Dr Les Hall spent a lifetime researching bats and maintained that east coast eucalypts and Grey-headed flying foxes co-evolved in a 50-million-year story of interspecies co-evolution

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The fur of Grey-headed flying foxes grows in such a way that it holds pollen and transfers this genetic material across eucalypt forests with outstanding success

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Eucalypts dont flower every year, they flower in mysterious cycles and only truly open their flowers and produce most of their nectar at night to attract the best pollinators 📷 Ironbark (Eucalyptus tricarpa)

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

DISGUSTING! 😡
The concept that cattle stations own millions of hectares of bush in Australia and are allowed to destroy it is one of the biggest environmental disasters in the world! ❌

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

I visited this property to do a baseline check for an endangered species assessment and was shocked driving through incredibly degraded desert country for hours at a time. It is catastrophic that Australia has allowed cattle stations to get away with what the environmental damage they do.

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"We found that individual flying foxes can literally travel thousands of kilometres a year, criss-crossing their entire range and sometimes multiple times," Dr Welbergen said. "They are not so much migratory as profoundly nomadic."
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“A new generation of trees is carried on the fur and the tongue, and on the wings that beat through the night carrying the animal to the tree, and carrying the tree’s gifts along to other trees.” https://t.co/CaQll9CvMb