The status and trends of Australia’s EPBC-Listed flying-foxes

摘要: This report reviews past and current monitoring of Australia’s two threatened flying-fox species, the spectacled flying-fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) and the grey-headed flying-fox (P. poliocephalus).Both the spectacled and grey-headed flying-foxes (hereafter SFF and GHFF) were listed on the basis of criterion 1 of the EPBC Act (decline in numbers). The SFF also met criterion 5 (probability of extinction in the wild is at least 10% in the medium-term). As a consequence of the criteria used in their listing, any reassessment of the status of these species a key consideration must be the issue of whether there is evidence of a “population size reduction over the last 10 years or three generations, whichever is the longer”.