{"id":408091,"date":"2026-01-12T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408091\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:23:07","slug":"wildlife-volunteers-traumatised-as-illawarras-bat-colonies-devastated-by-extreme-heatwave-illawarra-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408091\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife volunteers traumatised as Illawarra&#039;s bat colonies devastated by extreme heatwave &#8211; Illawarra Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisAFBVV95cUxPcFV1cFFySU1JN2lITjdVRDJVRmctQ0l6c25CMlBudEdITTVTWG04TXhZU25GWldYMGcydVJHOWdpRFozYXMzZW5HQTZ4UUM3RWxTaHkxSWphSlhhdG55cE1aNWVOeExwS3NRSURnNmU1RTNKSWcwcG02MXJzbE4yXzljU3V5dmFFelhZU3h5YUE3LWlsd0hzejktOWc5b0h4NXY4VEVIalJDc1RPUVkxeg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wildlife volunteers traumatised as Illawarra&#8217;s bat colonies devastated by extreme heatwave<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Illawarra Mercury<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi4AFBVV95cUxOWTZPY0R5SW1YOE9qOFRlVTVWVFpwT1NQU0llTkU5VWlCRkFlQWFmSXhPT0ZEanNUOU1Jb2pWRmR5Qk1HOUdTM0RHcjlEQU5KdVZYeVVNWkZhMG1lRnlMeHZmOG9uTi1pZWhETnllOTlRanVOdFJJSDZIWDRCWkFIQnVfQ3llVWo1X2w5M3k1UUVqMzNsLXdKaDRob3ljMVUwVDVJS284VDRHWWNya0UxN0tmWERMMk42Y2xjRDBETmVqaVNqNTZ3OFU5RkMtWFFlN18zQXhFWVJnTjR0Z0pBcw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Flying foxes die in their thousands in worst mass-mortality event since Australia\u2019s black summer<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitwFBVV95cUxOSWdUUG5VVU05NTVWZTRGYjY1UHdFblVhU1g2TnpHNTRPbGdDdDZ1Q1FULVRxaENSaVZaWjZ3dXJXdnRnYktYMlBaVE4xSDQwNTA0anNZOS1zVFdEX3NXX2hNZTZucFVhejlRVEQtS1pDc3dUZzVTdkwwOHpsZTU2ekZ1cGhXRUY2LTBXUllucWE5VzhNWThDTUh5N21kbzU2eFNIUWRieGxDbjFTR2R0UWMydXBxYkU?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crew left in tears over disturbing find at Aussie park: &#8216;They were everywhere&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahoo News Australia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildlife volunteers traumatised as Illawarra&#8217;s bat colonies devastated by extreme heatwave&nbsp;&nbsp;Illawarra MercuryFlying foxes die in their thousands in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-408091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}