There has been much online coverage of late as to how Climate Change, of the man made version has been killing Flying Foxes, bats, in Australia. As if this is some recent anomaly event.
However it has recently come to light via ‘Chom Noamsky’ on alt.global-warming that there have been previous mass die offs of Flying Foxes as far back as 1905 on old newspaper reports.
The other thing of not is the animal was not seen as a creature to be preserved by the Australian but rather an orchard pest in need of culling or extermination.
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10 January 1905
THE FLYING FOXES.
The hot days of last week caused the death of hundreds of flying foxes near Chambigne, where there was a camp of the vermin. We are informed that the foxes lay dead in great numbers under the trees, and the decomposition that has taken place is in itself a nuisance.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/61414190?searchTerm=flying%20foxes%20dead%20heat&searchLimits=
1 March 1935
FLYING FOXES DIE IN THOUSANDS
The scorching dry wind, which swept, the coast last week are
believed to have been the cause of the mortality
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/76558118?searchTerm=flying%20foxes%20heat&searchLimits=
24 February 2014
In 2012, the Queensland government reintroduced permits to
allow shooting of up to 10,500 flying foxes in orchards
The Queensland government now allows – and encourages
– local governments to disperse flying foxes from urban
colonies or destroy their roost sites without assessment.
In December the Queensland government announced
it would legislate to allow culling in flying fox colonies.
http://theconversation.com/killer-climate-tens-of-thousands-of-flying-foxes-dead-in-a-day-23227
It was urged that measures should be taken regarding scientific
destruction of flying foxes,
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/183321880?searchTerm=flying%20foxes%20spray&searchLimits=
The skeptic view 
