With more and more people moving into bat habitat in Australia, the “flying fox,” has become the object of antagonism in urban areas. A biologist in the city of Brisbane, Australia, is spearheading a campaign to save the flying fox from extinction. Ultimately, Marcus and her team want to determine how feasible it would be to move the animals away from their disgruntled new neighbors. With rainforest habitat disappearing from many regions of Australia, the flying fox isn’t the only species on the decline. But deforestation has had an especially dramatic impact on the bats, whose survival is inextricably linked to rainforest health. For Marcus, the bottom line is clear: “Australians need to tolerate the flying fox as a neighbor worthy of conservation. ”