The bat cave: Needles Gap dam threatening Cliefden's vulnerable bats

By Nicole Kuter
Updated July 24 2014 - 6:41am, first published 4:00am
A MOTHER COULD LOVE: The maternity site of horseshoe bats that live in the Cliefden Cave would be destroyed if the caves were flooded. 
Photo: JENNY WHITBY
A MOTHER COULD LOVE: The maternity site of horseshoe bats that live in the Cliefden Cave would be destroyed if the caves were flooded. Photo: JENNY WHITBY

THE habitat of a species of bat which is listed as vulnerable in NSW will be destroyed and the population decimated if the Needles Gap dam proposal gets the go-ahead according to cavers. 

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