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Land clearing, climate change directly linked to Hendra virus outbreaks

Land clearing in natural flying fox habitats in Queensland and NSW has exacerbated food shortages driven by climate change, directly causing Hendra virus spillovers to horses, research has confirmed.

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Flying foxes are dying en masse in Australia’s extreme heat
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Flying foxes are dying en masse in Australia’s extreme heat

In three days before Christmas, thousands of the mammals died in 110-degree heat in one Melbourne park.
Heat wave in Australia kills 23K flying foxes
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Heat wave in Australia kills 23K flying foxes

Temperatures reached over 107 degrees for several days, leading to the death of around 23,000 flying foxes.

Two days and one heatwave is all it took for Australia to lose one-third of its flying fox population
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Two days and one heatwave is all it took for Australia to lose one-third of its flying fox population

It took one heatwave — just one — to kill about 34 per cent of the spectacled flying foxes in Australia.

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