We specialise in flying foxes and microbats. We rescue other smaller animals and some waterbirds when we can, out of our peak bat rescue season, but majority of our time is taken up with Grey-headed Flying Fox rescue. I started as a vaccinated rescuer in 2017. Once people realised we were vaccinated we began to get all the 'bat calls'. We soon realised there was a huge gap in the rescue field for a specialised bat rescue and shelter in the Gippsland area.

My partner then joined me on rescues and that year we had an extreme heat event. We were thrown in the deep end so to say, as no-one else around knew what to do or how to help our precious flying foxes, and we soon set up Moonshadow Flying Fox Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre. We've been very busy, ever since, rescuing rehabilitating, working with schools and TAFE's and other organisations, giving talks to vet nurses and working with our local Shire of Wellington on a management plan and extreme weather events, doing community Bat Chats over Summer, educating the community through information stalls, and other groups, whenever the opportunity arises. And importantly, offering training and mentoring new bat rescuers in our area. We are monitoring local camps.

Education and information sharing is the key to helping our precious IUCN listed, threatened Species survival and changing community perceptions.