澳大利亚新南威尔士州和维多利亚州东部的灰头狐蝠正面临大规模饥饿与死亡威胁，这一现象主要归因于食物短缺 1。暖冬导致桉树开花模式改变，进而造成花蜜供应减少 1。继2019至2020年“黑色夏季”大火导致数万只狐蝠死亡后，2025至2026年夏季又有数千只同类动物因同样原因死亡 1。尽管西悉尼大学团队近期发布了“Australian Flying-Fox Monitor”平台以收集人口记录、追踪和公民科学数据，但目前的应对工作仍主要依靠志愿者 1。在新南威尔士州已知的476个狐蝠营地中，目前仅有52%处于监测状态，相较于2019年的35%虽有提升 1。
针对此次危机暴露出的管理漏洞，联邦议会早在2017年的调查报告中曾建议建立国家或东海岸各州的狐蝠咨询机构，但官方结果为“迄今无回应” 1。更为严峻的是，长期运行的“国家狐蝠监测计划”在2022年底被取消了资助 1。在法律层面，昆士兰州仍允许为保护作物射杀灰头狐蝠，尽管此前有禁止该做法的承诺 1。这种碎片化的应对方式引发了批评，显示出缺乏全国性的统一管理和恢复计划 1。
Grey-headed flying-foxes in eastern New South Wales and Victoria are experiencing mass starvation and death, a crisis attributed to food shortages caused by warm winters altering eucalyptus flowering patterns and reducing nectar availability 1. The affected species faces recurring lethal events, with tens of thousands dying during the 2019–2020 "Black Summer" bushfires and several thousand more perishing from similar causes in the 2025–26 summer 1. Currently, only 52% of the known flying-fox camps in New South Wales are being monitored, an increase from 35% in 2019, while the long-running National Flying-Fox Monitoring Program lost its funding at the end of 2022 1.
The response to these ecological crises remains largely dependent on volunteers due to a lack of national management and recovery plans 1. Despite a 2017 federal parliamentary inquiry recommending the establishment of a national or east-coast state advisory body for flying-foxes, there has been no official government response to date 1. Regulatory inconsistencies persist, with Queensland still permitting the shooting of grey-headed flying-foxes to protect crops despite previous commitments to ban the practice 1. To aid data collection, a team from Western Sydney University recently launched the "Australian Flying-Fox Monitor" platform to gather population records, tracking data, and citizen science contributions 1.
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