Bat Links

This page provides links to web-pages where you can find out more about flying-foxes, including some information about how you can help in conservation, rescue and care. Please use the contact page on this website if you have information about the occurrence of shooting or electrocution of flying-foxes in orchards.

Bat colony near Port Macquarie NSW (image: Copyright Brett Dolsen)

Bat rescue and care organisations

• Australian Fauna Care Register (for a comprehensive searchable list of rescue organisations)
• Australian Bat Clinic (Gold Coast)
  
• Australian Wildlife Hospital (Sunshine Coast)
• Australian Tropical Research Foundation (Cape Tribulation)
• Bat Conservation & Rescue Qld (Brisbane)
• Bat Rescue Inc.
• Batreach Kuranda
• Bats Qld (Flying Foxes & Microbats) Inc (Gold Coast, Lockyer Valley)
• Daintree Wildlife Rescue Inc.
• Far North Queensland Wildlife Rescue Association Inc (Cairns)
• F.A.U.N.A. (southeast Qld)
• FAWNA (NSW)
• Mission Beach Wildcare Inc.
• North Queensland Wildlife Care (Townsville)
• Tolga Bat Rescue and Research Inc (Atherton Tablelands)
• Tweed Valley Wildlife Carers
  
• Wildlife Rescue South Coast (NSW)
• WIRES (NSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service)

International

• Year of the Bat (United Nations)
• Bat Conservation International

Bat rescue
If you find an injured or baby bat, please contact a wildlife rescuer as soon as possible. It is important that you don't handle bats unless you are vaccinated against Australian Bat Lyssavirus. To find a wildlife rescuer in your local area, search  here (Aus Fauna Care) or call 1300 ANIMAL / 1300 264625 (in Qld).

Natural history & conservation

• Australasian Bat Society 
• All about bats 
• About flying-foxes (Queensland Government)
• Humane Society International (NSW campaign)
  
• Wildlife Friendly Fencing (the horrors of barbed wire)
  
• About bats (Bat Conservation & Rescue)
• SEQ Catchments
  
• Wildlife Queensland 
• Flying-foxes at Bellingen
• About flying-foxes (Victorian Government)
• Sydney Bats
• Living with flying-foxes (Queensland Health)
• Flying-foxes (NSW Government)
• Talking Bats (blog)
  
  

Health information

• Hendra virus (Queensland Government)
• Australian Bat Lyssavirus (Queensland Government)
• Hendra virus (Australian Veterinary Association)
  
• Why you shouldn’t be scared (Talking Bats blog)
  
• Hendra Facts (Independent Hendra Virus Facts)

Bat tourism

• Bat House, Cape Tribulation
• Batty boat cruises (Wildlife Queensland)
• Tolga Bat Hospital Visitor Centre
• Bellingen Island

Other links

• Environmental Defenders Office Qld: bat case 1,  other bat cases
• Environmental Law Publishing: Bat case 1, case 2, case 3