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20.01.2022 Our favourite time of the Month - Bat Burrito Time! You may have met some of our Education Bats up close at an event, or seen their photos here before - they are very special little ambassadors, here to show the world how cute, I mean how vital they are to our environment Behind the scenes, once a month the team here at Sydney Bats give them a health and wellness check, including; Wrapping up each bat and recording it's weight (while telling them how bloody cute they a...re, but please stop wriggling ) Clipping and filing their nails - in the wild they naturally file their nails by scrambling around on tree branches. If left unattended in captivity they grow too long and hooked, making it hard for them to grip and maneuver Checking their wings and teeth. Shown is a picture of a big wing scar and a tooth healing after having to be removed And finally, giving each bat a treat and some love . These health checks are so important for captive animals, as they are missing many things in the wild that keep them healthy - i.e. the tree branches that file their nails down, or flying upwards of 30km a night to maintain a healthy weight. It also helps us keepers bond with the bats and build trust and familiarity, so they are comfortable and happy being taken to education events. Although kept in captivity, these flying foxes live an absolutely pampered life at Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park and are very happy and healthy . . *These bats are education animals, kept under licence at a wildlife sanctuary *NEVER TOUCH A WILD BAT! Sydney Bats handlers are licenced, trained and vaccinated to handle these animals - if you see a sick or injured bat, call your local wildlife rescue ASAP and DON'T TOUCH #notouchnorisk #batsarenotpets #keystone #pollinators #threatenedspecies #flyingfox #flyingfoxes #conservation #batconservation #wildlifeconservation #australiannative #australianwildlife #wildliferescue #sydneywildlife #bats #greyheadedflyingfox See more

17.01.2022 Play behaviour in non-human animals is actually quite common, although of course with wild animals they certainly don’t want to play with big scary humans! It’s a different story for our tame education bats, who happily interact with us whenever we go into their enclosure! Last weekend while we were working in the bat enclosure at Walkabout Park Wildlife Sanctuary, Mel was swinging on one of the ropes, trying to get to us to demand a treat (These are trained and licenced education animals, and we are trained and vaccinated to handle them. Never touch a wild bat. #NoTouchNoRisk )

16.01.2022 ADMIN NOTE: This page is about Australian flying-foxes specifically, and more generally, environmental issues in Australia. Providing you stay on topic and polite, relevant comments are all fine - even if they disagree with a post. What we won't tolerate is personal abuse - comments like that will be deleted as soon as we notice them. It's entirely possible to express a negative opinion of say, politicians and political parties, and the effect of their actions on the environment, while staying polite...

13.01.2022 "Nothing to see here" Mel (Melaleuca) hides her little stockpile of grapes from the derpy, thieving Sandi (Sandpaper Fig). To be fair, Sandi has her mouth stuffed and isn't very interested (for now..) Bat Reels! Finally, a use for the feature .... . *These bats are education animals, kept under licence at Australian Walkabout Wildlife Park *NEVER TOUCH A WILD BAT! Sydney Bats handlers are licenced, trained and vaccinated to handle these animals - if you see a sick or injured bat, call your local wildlife rescue ASAP and DON'T TOUCH See more

09.01.2022 The Walkabout Park Wildlife Sanctuary is where our education flying-foxes live... They've been closed to the public with the COVID-19 restrictions, but are re-opening on Monday! So on the weekend, we went up to the Park and got the bats and their enclosure ready for the public!

06.01.2022 Premiere of this fantastic film about flying-foxes and climate change is happening THIS THURSDAY. Live screening in Brisbane and Sydney, and you can also book a ticket for live online streaming for those who can’t make it. It will be followed by a Q&A expert panel including Sydney Bats very own vice chair Sarah Curran @Sarah’s Bats Jason Di Rosso of RN’s The Screen Show describes it as a poetic and evocative, confronting reflection on the psychological stresses of climate ...change on everyday lives. 7 pm | Thursday 24th Sept | & simultaneously streaming online for those who can’t make the screenings. Book here: Sydney: https://fan-force.com//the-weather-diaries-event-cinemas-/ Brisbane: https://fan-force.com/sc/the-weather-diaries-indooroopilly/ Virtual Screening: https://www.fanforcetv.com/programs/theweatherdiaries

04.01.2022 Today is the 1st of September... on this day in 1914, the last known Passenger Pigeon died in Cincinnati Zoo, Ohio. Passenger Pigeons were once the most abundant bird on the planet - in the second half of the 19th century, flocks were estimated to contain more than 100 million individuals, took three days to pass, and darkened the sky while they did. Yet the Passenger Pigeon was hunted to extinction within a few decades, helped along by extensive deforestation. It went from b...eing the commonest bird on the planet to extinct in the space of one human generation. You would think we might have learnt something from the story of the Passenger Pigeon, the Dodo, the Great Auk, and many others. But sadly, here we are in the second decade of the 21st century, still destroying habitat, driving more species to extinction. And many people have not learnt the specific lesson of the Passenger Pigeon - just because something is common (or appears abundant) does not mean that it cannot quickly vanish through our actions. In Australia, many of our species are in trouble. We've (sadly) got one of the worst records for extinctions over the last few hundred years in the world. Next week, the 7th of September is Threatened Species Day in Australia - the day that "commemorates" the day probably the best known of our extinctions, the last known Tasmanian Tiger, died in Beaumaris Zoo, in Hobart, in 1936. Many of our bat species are in the list of those in danger. The Christmas Island Flying-fox is listed as critically endangered; the Spectacled Flying-fox as endangered (and probably should be critically...); and the Grey-headed flying-fox is listed as vulnerable, but again, after the last few years of drought, bushfire, starvation... is probably in far more trouble than we think. Koalas, too - probably our most iconic species - are in serious trouble in parts of their range. Broadscale environmental destruction is the root cause of this. Land clearing and habitat destruction, combined with droughts, fires, a changing climate, and direct persecution, don't leave our wildlife with anywhere really to go. The irony, of course, is that we need a functioning and stable environment for us as humans to survive. "The environment" isn't a separate abstract concept, it's something we are all part of and depend on. Isn't it about time we started thinking about the broader picture, and about species other than just Homo sapiens?

01.01.2022 Well, so far (touch wood!) we haven't seen the widespread winter starvation we were fearing would be a result of the bushfires over summer. No idea yet whether that's because there are less bats for the remaining food (due to mass casualties); or the winter food sources weren't badly burnt, or what. Time will tell. But our bats are still in trouble. Dispersals of critical camps are imminent in Charters Towers and more importantly in Cairns... the result of years of failed pol...icy and lack of enforcement of environmental protections: https://theconversation.com/our-laws-failed-these-endangere And, as always - the root of the problem is habitat destruction: https://www.theguardian.com//koalas-will-be-driven-to-exti (Same issues for bats as koalas. And everything else...)