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HUNTER COMMUNITIES STRUGGLING TO COPE WITH BAT COLONIES
Calls by Federal Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon for a senate inquiry into managing bat colonies in the Hunter is gathering momentum.
It comes as one community struggles to handle a growth in bat numbers.
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They are extremely bad in Singleton & in Muswellbrook, something needs to be done!
these flying foxes are destroying habitat, and peoples lives. The smell around East Cessnock is like putrid dying carcasses. They are so close to peoples homes and over lap into the school grounds. Singleton park has branches breaking, trees dying. A fence now surrounds the park in the middle of town. About time human life was treated as a priority.
Flying foxes are also a priority they are listed as endangered, the populations in certain areas us due to habitat loss elsewhere, these are an Australian native animal and should be given respect as such