We can adapt, but other species can't, and we need them

Humans have a spectacular ability to adapt, but sadly many other species don’t.

Our native flying
 fox  - falling victim
to increased
temperatures.

The gradual increase of global temperatures has changed human behaviours a little, but the impact on other species has been dramatic.

Just this summer we witnessed the most dramatic dies-offs ever seen in Australia when more than 40 000 flying foxes died on one extremely hot day in south-eastern Queensland.

The death of the foxes was explored in a story on The Conversation headed: “Killer climate: tens of thousands of flying foxes dead in a day”.

Although portrayed as noisy pests, the foxes are a protected native species and any drop in their populations will have significant environmental ramifications as the spread seed and pollinate native trees.