Next to Rockhampton Airport is a large botanical garden filled with thousands of flying foxes, and when the sun sets these creatures come alive and cause headaches for incoming flights.

Singleton Council will call on state and federal governments to seek advice about dealing with the flying fox colony that has plagued the town centre for decades.

This report reviews past and current monitoring of Australia’s two threatened flying-fox species, the spectacled flying-fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) and the grey-headed flying-fox (P. poliocephalus).

The NFWC received the colony of nearly 30 bats from the Jacksonville Zoo recently and the center is excited to allow visitors ...