Claims extracted
18
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
22%
4 of 18 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Environment
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Distressed, hot and hungry bats should be reported to expert wildlife carers and definitely not handled, as food shortages and increasing heat put pressure on colonies around Sydney.
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shortages → report → Sydney
Thousands of grey-headed flying foxes are suffering from starvation after a dry winter affected their primary food source, native tree blossoms and nectar.
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winter → fly → source
The looming summer threatens to worsen the impact.
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summer → loom → impact
Greater Sydney Parklands – a government agency which manages some of the city’s largest and well-known parks, including Centennial Parklands in Sydney’s east, along with Parramatta Park and Western Sydney Parklands – issued its warning on Monday.
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which → manage → Monday
“We want to remind park goers that if they see a distressed bat they should never handle it because they can scratch and bite,” the agency’s environmental and sustainability officer Amara Glynn said.
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Glynn → want → it
Sightings of distressed or injured bats should instead be referred to the Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service (WIRES) or Sydney Wildlife Rescue.
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Sightings → injure → Service
“Carers who are trained and prepared can come and tend to these bats,” Glynn said.
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Glynn → train → bats
More than 40,000 bats have been spotted around Lachlan Swamp in Centennial Parklands, making it home to one of the largest colonies of grey-headed flying foxes in the city according to Greater Sydney Parklands.
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it → spot → Parklands
Parramatta Park is thought to be home to between 5000 and 10,000 of the bats.
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Park → think → bats
In the south-west Sydney suburb of Harrington Park, about 50,000 bats colonised an area along Narellan Creek in June , according to the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, frustrating residents.
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bats → colonise → residents
Research earlier this year estimated grey-headed flying foxes could contribute close to $1 billion to the nation’s timber industry, planting about 91 million trees each year by dispersing seeds and pollinating flowers.
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foxes → estimate → flowers
The vulnerable species, which live predominantly along the coast east of the Great Dividing Range, are the largest bats in Australia.
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which → live → Australia
They typically feed on blossoms and nectar from native trees, but a drier than usual winter and poor seasonal flowering of eucalypts and other native flora are believed to be leaving bats hungry.
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winter → feed → bats
WIRES warned earlier in October the starvation event was driving increased reports of unusual behaviour and malnourishment in flying foxes.
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event → warn → foxes
“They’re eating off the ground, drinking water from the grass after the rain, and hanging too low in trees,” WIRES said.
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WIRES → eat → trees
Rescues and deaths have increased and bats have been seen roosting in fruit trees instead of returning to their colonies, Greater Sydney Parklands said.
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Parklands → increase → colonies
Summer could force the closure of some parts of the Greater Sydney Parklands estate as the heat increases.
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heat → force → estate
“During periods of extreme heat, particularly when temperatures exceed 42 degrees, grey-headed flying fox colonies are at significant risk of heat stress death, so we will be closing our colony sites to the public when this happens,” Glynn said.
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Glynn → exceed → public
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