Girl Guides are sewing mumma wraps for injured bats as wildlife carers become overwhelmed by the increase in flying fox orphans.
Ms Kraatz said heatwaves, fires, climate change, power lines, barbed wire and non-wildlife friendly fruit netting are all contributing to their decline.
"They're the most misunderstood and persecuted animal, yet they're the most vital animal we can have in Australia purely because they're a keystone species," she said."They're not the disease-ridden animals that they're perceived to be.""One bat can disperse up to 66,000 seeds a night and they're our only night time pollinator and most trees can only be pollinated at night because the stigmas only open at night," she said.
"We also need them now the fires have gone through to regenerate all those forests and to support all the other wildlife as well.
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