Bats in the Catlins
Rotorua.
DAVID HOLLAND
A correspondent in Forest ¢ Bird May 2002, suggests the South Canterbury bats are the only known populations on the east coast of the South Island, I am pleased to report there is another in the Catlins where I’ve recently spent a wonderful evening watching bats hunting over a river valley which is dotted with patches of native bush. Despite claims by local hunters that bats (and kakariki parakeets) were wiped out by 1080 poison used against possums, it seems both have survived in the area — but for how much longer is anyone’s guess as nearby virgin rimu forest is being logged at an alarming rate.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 307, 1 February 2003, Page 3
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