Consultation: Draft National Recovery Plan for the Ghost bat

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Description

Summary The ghost bat – Macroderma gigas (Dobson, 1880) – is the only living species in its genus and it is Australia’s largest echolocating bat. It has a broad, but disjunct, distribution across northern Australia. Fossil records show this distribution has contracted north over approxima&helli