15K views · 674 reactions | Project Pteropus is one of five recipients of BCI's Grassroots Grants program! This project will study the interactions between the small flying-fox, Pteropus hypomelanus, and the plants and people of a Malaysian offshore island called Tioman. This island holds the last remaining permanent roosts of this locally threatened species! | Bat Conservation International | Facebook

Grey-headed Flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus), also known as fruit bats, have been coming to Melbourne for more than 100 years, and a colony of around 30,000 call Yarra Bend Park, on Wurundjeri Country, home. 💚 Did you know, bats play a vital role in pollinating and dispersing seed for many native forests across the east coast of Australia? Like many native mammals, these bats are a threatened species, and the recent State of the Environment report has called for more to be done to protect