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Rosie Galea chuckles as she describes the call of the bush stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius). “I’ve heard that people often think it’s a woman screaming,” she says. “The sound is certainly unique and distinctive, but it’s very much how the Victorian landscape should sound when dusk falls.” Rosie and her partner Mark Reed are members of the Upper Spring Creek Landcare Group in central Victoria.
Dozens of black, wide-open eyes are staring down at us, curious and intelligent, as ears twitch and bodies hang upside-down. “This is their second chance at life,” Tamsyn Hogarth says quietly of this batch of grey-headed flying-fox pups orphaned in a starvation crisis facing the species during its 2023–24 breeding season along Australia’a south-east coast.
In the villages of mainland Papua New Guinea, near the town of Madang on the north coast, a struggle to protect the rainforest is underway. Loggers have clearcut large swathes of the rainforest in this region, destroying a valuable resource that local villages depend on for survival. “The forest is our livelihood,” says Lawrence Micah, who has lived his entire 50 years in the village of Simbukanam.
It’s time to get behind these adorable flying puppies. By Annette Ruzicka • June 29, 2020 • Reading Time: 2 Minutes A Decrease font size. A Reset font size. A Increase font size. Text Size A duo of grey-headed flying foxes captured mid-cuddle. Image credit: Annette Ruzicka After the megafires of 2019-2020, nationally threatened grey-headed flying-foxes are about to find themselves in a mass starvation event.
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