A Story of Progress: How a Tiny Australian Town Relocated 500,000 Flying Foxes | A Story Worth Sharing

A Story of Progress: How a Tiny Australian Town Relocated 500,000 Flying Foxes | A Story Worth Sharing

Why this story matters: This piece offers a constructive counterpoint to the constant stream of negative news. Quick summary: This story highlights recent developments related to australia, showing how constructive action can lead to meaningful results. S urrounded by vast sugarcane farms, pristine rainforest, empty beaches and lush waterfalls, Cameron Bates’ new home of Ingham, a town in northern Australia, was a welcome breath of fresh air after the 16 years he’d spent living and working in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2019, Bates moved into an apartment in the center of Ingham, overlooking the town’s main Rotary Park and just minutes away from the community’s beloved Botanical Gardens, war memorial and adjacent green spaces. But these were also all locations that the town’s population of flying foxes, members of the fruit bat family, had come to call home. While Ingham’s flying foxes had taken up residence there for at least the previous decade, the colony was growing thanks to four differen…