Flying-fox links

Flying-fox Conservation and Awareness

 · The Action plan for Australian Bats - Environment Australia Website

 · On the status of Australian Fruit Bats - Oliver Thacther, Leeds University, UK

  ·· Recovery outline for grey-headed flying fox - Chris Tidemann, Peggy Eby, Kerryn Parry-Jones, Michael Vardon

 · Flying-fox conservation issues in North Queensland - Australian Tropical Research Foundation

 · Australian flying-fox Conservation Foundation

 · Ku-ring-gai Bat Conservation Society

 · Flying foxes on Bellingen Island, N.S.W. Vivien Jones

 ·· Pteropus Guesthouse and Tolga Bat Hospital. Jenny McLean, Atherton Tablelands, North Queensland

Other flying fox issues of concern

 ·· The electrocution of Spectacled flying-foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus) by fruit farmers in North Queensland - Carol Booth, North Queensland Conservation Council and Allen Mcilwee, School of Tropical Biology, James Cook University.

 · Legal action to save flying-foxes from electrocution. Press release. 11th December 2000. Nicola Beynon. Humane Society International.

 · Wildlife and Habitat protection Alert: Help put a stop to the electrocution of spectacled flying-foxes in Queensland Fruit Farms. Humane Society International and North Queensland Conservation Council

 · Environmental Defenders Office (QLD) involved in first case under new Commonwealth Environmental Legislation. Special Bulletin. EDO, 15th December 2000.

Further information on flying foxes

  · Grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) - Patrina Birt, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Queensland

 · Grey-headed flying fox records in Victoria - Viridans Biological Database

 · Are Flying Foxes Really Primates? - John Pettigrew, Physiology at the Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Queensland

 · Flying foxes in Australia - Chris Tidemann, Forestry Department, Australian National University

International Bat Conservation Web Sites

 · Basically Bats Wildlife Conservation Society Inc.

 · Batworld Santuary and Education Centre

 · The Bat CREW (Conservation, Rescue, Education and Welfare)

Public health and disease issues

 · Australian Bat Lyssavirus and Equine Morbillivirus information

For further information about flying-foxes see: Hall, L. & Richards, G. Flying foxes: fruit & blossom bats of Australia. Uni of NSW Press, 2000.