Impacts Image by rihaij from Pixabay Land clearing, climate change directly linked to Hendra virus outbreaks Land clearing in natural flying fox habitats in Queensland and NSW has exacerbated food shortages driven by climate change, directly causing Hendra virus spillovers to horses, research has confirmed.
Newsletter Australia's wildfires will create big problems for fresh water When huge quantities of ash wash into rivers, dams, and eventually the sea, they will likely pollute water supplies and kill aquatic wildlife.
Impacts www.nationalgeographic.com Flying foxes are dying en masse in Australia’s extreme heat In three days before Christmas, thousands of the mammals died in 110-degree heat in one Melbourne park.
inhabitat.com Heat wave in Australia kills 23K flying foxes Temperatures reached over 107 degrees for several days, leading to the death of around 23,000 flying foxes.
Impacts www.dailyo.in Two days and one heatwave is all it took for Australia to lose one-third of its flying fox population It took one heatwave — just one — to kill about 34 per cent of the spectacled flying foxes in Australia.
