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Caution Urged in Dealing with Injured Bats 

Caution Urged in Dealing with Injured Bats 

Residents in the Hawkesbury, Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow regions are being reminded to exercise caution when approaching injured or distressed bats as they may carry the fatal disease, lyssavirus. Lyssavirus, closely related to the rabies virus, which has been...

Going batty at Yarramundi

If you thought last summer was hot, thank the flying foxes it wasn’t more of a scorcher. The fact is, bats help keep temperatures lower than they would be by helping to plant trees, so it’s fitting a special Bushcare event at Yarrumundi Reserve north side has seen...