Adelaide Flying-Foxes Heat Stress Survivors
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On Thursday 24th January 2019 Adelaide was hit with a temperature of 46 degrees. We have only one flying-fox colony in South Australia of Grey Headed Flying-Foxes which resides in Botanic Park in the city of Adelaide. Flying-Foxes are a vulnerable species vital for the environment. They disperse seed and pollen . Flying-foxes do not cope well with heat and this high temperature had catastrophic results for our colony. We do not have a final figure yet but we have expect the figure to reach 3,000-4,000 flying-foxes that we lost. The Fauna Rescue Bat Team was out in the heat all day saving what bats we could. In total we bought in to care just over 100 bats. With other orphans now in care that makes 150 bats in the care of Fauna Rescue. Most of them are juveniles . Due to the high number of adults lost we could not try to return them to their mothers as most would now be deceased. We are in desperate need of funds to buy fruit, High Protein Supplement and chopping machines.
Each bat will require up to 350-400gms of fruit per night.
This adds us to a whopping 60kgs of fruit per night.
We urgently need 2 fruit chopping machines at approx $1,000 each.
If you can donate to help us you will be helping to save a vulnerable species. Not everyone can afford to donate but you can share our cause. Please share this around. We are all volunteers and receive no government funding. Fauna Rescue is a non for profit organisation. If you have any queries please don't hesitate to contact us
Each bat will require up to 350-400gms of fruit per night.
This adds us to a whopping 60kgs of fruit per night.
We urgently need 2 fruit chopping machines at approx $1,000 each.
If you can donate to help us you will be helping to save a vulnerable species. Not everyone can afford to donate but you can share our cause. Please share this around. We are all volunteers and receive no government funding. Fauna Rescue is a non for profit organisation. If you have any queries please don't hesitate to contact us
Organizer
Sue Westover
Organizer
Wynn Vale SA
