Large fruit bats are starving with too few flowers for food

Large fruit bats called grey-headed flying foxes, officially at risk of disappearing, are starving across NSW and parts of Victoria because flowering trees have little nectar. The state environment department says shortages stretch from northern rivers to south coast. Rescuers WIRES blame lost habitat and poor flowering after a dry winter, while mid-north coast group Fawna gets 50-90 calls daily.