Report on deaths and injuries to Grey-headed …

Report on deaths and injuries to Grey-headed Flying- foxes, Pteropus poliocephalus shot in an orchard near Sydney, NSW. March 2009. Anja Divljan1, Kerryn Parry-Jones1, Peggy Eby2. 1. Institute of Wildlife Research, School of Biological Sciences, Heydon-Laurence Building (A08), The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006. 2. 9 Albert Lane, Bronte, NSW, 2024. Executive Summary For several years, animal ethics concerns have been raised over the practice of shooting flying-foxes in commercial fruit orchards in Australia, and the role of government agencies in licensing the kill. In New South Wales the practice is poorly monitored and insufficient evidence has been available to assess ethical concerns. This study reports the first systematically acquired data on flying-foxes shot under licence in NSW. In spring of 2007, a licensee who believed themselves to be acting within the bounds of normal, acceptable industry practice granted permission for flying-foxes to be collected from their orchard during a short period of shooting for crop protection.

2 The most common cause of death of the animals that died before collection was attributed to internal haemorrhaging in the thoracic and abdominal cavity.

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