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Bats have been the overlords of this small Australian town for months.\u00a0Now they’re about to get shooed away.<\/span><\/p>\n

Approximately 100,000 flying fox bats, who have made the New South Wales holiday town of Bateman’s Bay their home, are about to get their marching orders.\u00a0It follows an announcement of A$2.5 million<\/a> in funding to relocate the bats on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s welcome news for residents, who have felt trapped in their homes \u00a0like “prisoners” due to the animal plague. Since March, the council has noted a significant increase in complaints from the residents.\u00a0<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bats have been the overlords of this small Australian town for months.\u00a0Now they’re about to get shooed away. Approximately 100,000 flying fox bats, who have made the New South Wales holiday town of Bateman’s Bay their home, are about to … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}