Cairns Regional Council has reviewed and expanded its highly successful flying fox management strategy.
The new policy, which supersedes the previous Management of Flying Fox Colonies General Policy, reflects and expands on Council's management options in accordance with codes of practice issued by the Department of Environment and Science.
It also broadens the scope of the policy to include all roosts in the Cairns region, whereas the previous policy focused largely on the CBD roost and excluded non-urban roosts on Council controlled land.
Cairns Regional Council is now considered a leader in the management of flying-foxes, in particular the management of the endangered spectacled flying-fox species.
Learnings and experience from the past decade have been used to develop the new Flying-Fox Management Strategy – Cairns LGA.
Council has also committed $12,000 to Bats and Trees Society of Cairns Inc. (BatSoc) to support bat carers in Cairns and to continue education and community engagement initiatives.
BatSoc is a not-for-profit incorporated entity; its primary activity is to engage and inform the local community about bats and trees through events and educational talks at schools.
