Flying fox: threats and global conservation status
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As a most reliable species, flying fox plays a crucial role in the sustaining of several tropical and rainforest plants
robust to adopt in different climatic zones.
obstacles to their population recovery
categorized as eminent seed dispersing and pollen transferring agents of night blooming plants.
During the time of foraging, seeds are defecated either on a flyingpathway or at the roosting site while pollen grains are exchanged among trees due to frequent circle guild and repeatedly visiting on the particular foraging tree.
Presently, hunting of flying foxes for bush meat is a global issue particularly in tropical regions
makes them to endure up to a particular frequency of threat as they like to maintain the roost colonies even more than a century in the same area.
lyxing foxes are overhunted for bush meat and traditional food
teeth used in necklaces
for recreation
auspicious occasions
as a delicious dish as having nutritional constituents
by nomadic and localities
cures diverse ailments
hasty deforestation rates emerge as a significant threat of flying foxes because they spent half of their life periods on roost trees
The temperature rose to 42.8°C during 2002 in Australian Pacific region, as a result, around 3500 flying foxes died from nine colonies.
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