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Queensland to continue to allow farmers to shoot flying foxes after revoking ban on controversial practice (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

WTF? Aren't they endangered?

[–] AstaKask@lemmy.cafe 12 points 2 days ago

Yes but farmers like to leave their shit out in the wild without protecting it and then get furious when wild animals eat it. They're like this in Sweden with the wolves too. Want to store your sheep in the wild? Get a fucking shepard or build a better fence. Fucking morons.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

two species, the grey-headed flying-fox and the spectacled flying-fox, are listed as threatened under the Commonwealth Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) and relevant state legislation.

https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/biodiversity/threatened/species/flying-fox-monitoring#why-monitor