Spectacled flying foxes under threat
© 2001 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
November 17, 2001
The Wildlife Preservation Society fears an important north Queensland rainforest species may be under threat.
A count of spectacled flying foxes from 1998 to 1999 reveals there was a 35 per cent decline in the population, which plays an important pollination and seed dispersal role in the wet tropics.
Spokeswoman Olivia Whybird says volunteers will carry out another count this weekend.
"It gets tabulated, all the different colonies we put together and we add it all up and find out what the numbers are like," she said.
"We write a report and we send it out to everybody who counts as well as the government agencies and other management bodies for these things."