These Spectacled Flying Foxes are Critically Endangered by scientific criteria (Dr David Westcott, CSIRO, June 2020) but only listed as Endangered by the Federal and Queensland governments who procrastinated for three years to upgrade from Vulnerable to Endangered, most likely for political reasons.

The Cairns Regional Council is evicting them from this Nationally Important Camp as they consider them "'messy". They now call it "deterrence" (ie haven't landed), but they clearly have landed and are in fact roosting so it is "dispersal". This suggests they are breaching the Conditions of the Authorisation. Videographer - Riah Holland

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