Threatened species & ecological communities

The Action Plan for Australian Bats

Environment Australia, 1999
ISBN 0 642 2546 363

Appendix C – Summary of expenditure required to recover threatened taxa

Critically Endangered
Saccolaimus saccolaimus nudicluniatus Bare-rumped Sheathtail Bat $210 000
Taphozous troughtoni Troughton’s Sheathtail Bat $90 000
Total for Critically Endangered taxa $300 000
Endangered
Rhinolophus philippinensis (large form) Greater Large-eared Horseshoe Bat $129 000
Hipposideros semoni Semon’s Leaf-nosed Bat $135 200
Pipistrellus murrayi Christmas Island Pipistrelle $190 000
Total for Endangered taxa $454 200
Vulnerable
Pteropus poliocephalus Grey-headed Flying Fox $1 260 000
Rhinonicteris aurantius (Pilbara form) Pilbara Leaf-nosed Bat $130 000
Chalinolobus dwyeri Large-eared Pied Bat $161 000
Nyctophilus timoriensis (South-eastern form) Eastern Long-eared Bat $127 000
Total for Vulnerable taxa   $1 678 000
Total for all threatened taxa   $2 432 200