Australia's flying-foxes finally have a dashboard of their own — built by the people who watch over them

Grey-headed flying-foxes are the world's largest flying mammals and Australia's great pollinators, but when hard seasons hit, carers have often had to respond camp by camp, with no national picture. That is changing. A team at Western Sydney University has released the Australian Flying-Fox Monitor, gathering population records, tracking data and citizen-science reports for every flying-fox species in one public place. Local monitoring has quietly surged: of 476 known camps in New South Wales, 52% are now watched over by agencies, land managers and volunteers — up from 35% in 2019.

SDG 15 · Life on land — Mechanism: tech innovation