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Rescuers respond to surge in callouts for the vulnerable bat species, which usually feeds on blossoms and tree nectar Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Flying foxes are starving en masse across New South Wales and parts of Victoria, with wildlife rescuers responding to a surge in reports of “exhausted and emaciated” adults and skeletal pups. Most reports involved grey-headed flying foxes, listed as vulnerable under federal environment laws and which usually feed on the

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Hundreds of people displaced in Bangka Belitung province as shift in wind direction drove blaze towards settlement An forest fire on Indonesia’s Sumatra island fuelled by El Niño has razed nearly 300 homes, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate, an official said on Tuesday as the country battles devastating blazes and haze. Residents first spotted the fire approaching their village in Bangka Belitung province on Saturday and tried to put it out themselves with portable water pumps, the head of