Letters to the editor

Updated June 2 2016 - 4:50pm, first published 12:12pm
TOPSY TURVY: A local reader is critical of the federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt's intervention in the Batemans Bay flying fox issue.
TOPSY TURVY: A local reader is critical of the federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt's intervention in the Batemans Bay flying fox issue.

Minister’s batty move 

I congratulate the South Coast Register for not taking any part in the inaccurate and emotive reporting and condemnation of the flying-foxes at Batemans Bay. Experts have said the gathering of a large proportion of the entire species of grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) is in response to a rare mass-flowering of spotted gums on the NSW South Coast. They say when the flowing comes to an end, the bats will disperse back to their usual roosts – and there is evidence this is now starting to happen.

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