Damage to Fruit Trees: the Killing of Bats Seriously Considered

Patience has its limits. That of the government in respect of bats, has apparently he reached his. Preventive measures, including subsidies for the purchase of nets, have not attained the desired objectives, the State of Mauritius is directed towards the slaughter of Pteropus Niger, the big bats, an endemic species, so unique, Mauritius and Reunion. 

Two initiatives illustrate the determination of the State of Mauritius. First, his approach to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, non-governmental organization to influence, encourage and assist in the preservation, integrity and diversity of nature. 

The State of Mauritius officially request the declassification of the current status of the bat has a Mauritian endemic status therefore subject to the conservation and protection. In other words, give him the green light to shoot them. 

The other initiative much more decisive and forceful than the first concerns the development of legislation to make possible the control of wildlife populations when a species is considered parasite. Legislation, the National Parks Bill, is at the stage of the project. It awaits the green light from the Attorney General, legal counsel of the government, for the text to be put on the table of the National Assembly.

This already raised eyebrows of Mauritian Wild Life Foundation. "The bats of Mauritius is unique, the result of millions of years of evolution that was in Eden Mauritius. It deserves the pride and protection of every Mauritian, as well as the ebony, the tambalacoque, the kestrel, the Pink Pigeon, the Round Island boa - in short everything that constitutes the heritage of our country" insists Vikash Tatayah, Conversation Manager. 

He proposes the establishment of Advanced Studies, reliable and long-term ecology of the bat, the dynamics of its populations, and comparable actual levels of damage to fruit costs and benefits of protection methods of fruit, new techniques of cultivation and breeding. Vikash Tatayah wants the real impact on the economic losses are taken into account. 

The damage caused by bats in the area of fruit production are no strangers to the approach of the State. For 2009 alone, losses to producers of litchi, longan and mango, respectively, are estimated at Rs 40 million, Rs 16 million and Rs 8 million.