Experts reveal what techniques are most successful in preventing backyard roosting, as towns prepare to be inundated by an influx of flying foxes.
For the Hinchinbrook Shire Council, the migration comes after a successful relocation of 300,000 flying foxes from botanical gardens in Ingham.
But in Charters Towers authorities are struggling to control a roost of thousands in the middle of the town. "It was an old mining site, now mango trees grow there, it's fenced off, there is a small dam and solar lights, so it looks like a small town," he said."We're looking to use shotgun noise and water in the afternoons and early in the morning."Biodiversity Australia consultant Carl Robinson said the agency had a 100 per cent success rate with clients looking to relocate a flying fox roost.
Mr Robinson said in one case at Miriam Vale it took two years to relocate a colony of flying foxes that had been roosting over a preschool.
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