Fraser Coast Chronicle

Flying fox populations 'decimated' by starvation

With this year's juvenile population the worst affected, a wildlife carers says it will be hard for the species to...

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25th Sept. 2019 12:09 AM

WARNING: Starving bats dropping from sky, attacking on Coast

Fraser Coast residents have been hospitalised and hundreds of starving bat have died.

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16th Sept. 2019 5:09 AM

STARVATION EDPIDEMIC: One of the flying foxes that was taken in by Wildlife Rescue Fraesr Coast.

BAT BOXES: Micro-bats keeping planet habitable for humans

Creatures such as micro-bats might be the only thing standing between humans and an uninhabitable planet.

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11th March 2019 6:03 PM

The 1,000 micro bat box in the Fraser Coast region is installed on Ray Christensen's farm at Nikenbah - pictured with John Parsons (Pres. Fraser Coast Micro Bats) as (L) Dr. Dominique Potvin (lecturer USC animal ecology) and student Jessica Sellke position another micro bat box. Ray has 100 of the boxes on his farm.

PHOTOS: Python makes a meal out of flying fox

Family looks on as snake devours bat in popular Ipswich park

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10th Jan. 2019 5:01 PM

A coastal carpet python eating a flying fox spotted at Riverheart Parklands in Ipswich.

Flying fox scratches boy, 12,

A YOUNG boy was left fearing for his life after he was scratched by a flying fox at a park.

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08th Jan. 2019 9:01 AM

Cody Polinelli was scratched on the neck by a flying fox at Apex Park, Charters Towers.

Wildlife carers predict doomsday scenario for vital species

Fears that half the local colony was lost during extreme CQ heatwave

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09th Dec. 2018 7:12 PM

EXHAUSTED BABY: An orphaned flying fox in Rockhampton following last week's fires

Flying fox strike causes big power outage

When the lights went out a second time however, crews went to investigate the cause and discovered a bat in lines on John...

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19th Dec. 2017 5:12 AM

Why these little cuties are costing Gladstone big bucks

Councils want Queensland Government to re-asses the state's flying fox management plan and to dig deep into state coffers...

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05th Oct. 2017 7:10 AM

Stealth infrared drone spies on sleeping flying foxes

A DRONE has pinpointed the locations of flying foxes in Kearneys Spring in unprecedented night-vision footage.

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04th April 2017 10:04 AM

Thermal imaging of a flying fox colony in Kearneys Spring, Toowoomba.

How Olivia was saved from almost-certain death

AN unfortunate incident separated this grey-headed flying-fox pup from her mother.

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31st Oct. 2016 6:10 AM

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