The Queensland, Australia government-sanctioned killing of two threatened species – Spectacled and Grey-headed flying-foxes, has enraged bat conservationists across the globe. The government banned the shooting of flying-foxes in 2008 after the Australian Animal Welfare Advisory Committee found it was … Continue reading
Source: Don’t Shoot Bats Threatened Species Day in Queensland, Australia was marked this year by the re-introduction of government-sanctioned killing of two threatened species – Spectacled and Grey-headed flying-foxes. The Qld Government banned shooting of flying-foxes in 2008 after the … Continue reading
An Egyptian fruit bat
who defies description
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A pallid bat saved from cruel
research at Texas A&M
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A “zoo retired”
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An orphaned Jamaican
fruit bat
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A Brazilian free-tail who
isn’t good at being a bat
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Thank you to the lovely ladies who drove this little dusty bat to us. She had been stuck in a warehouse for three days, was extremely emaciated and dehydrated, and would not have lasted another day. Within 15 minutes of … Continue reading
We rescue starving orphaned free-tailed bats from our wild sanctuary every summer. Normally we find and save one to two per day, but one Sunday in July of 2012, we rescued 16. The videos below tell the story of The … Continue reading
