Bat

A zoologist in Russia, aided by volunteers, has taken hundreds of bats into her apartment to help them survive the winter. Warmer winters and human disturbance has meant that the mammals are waking up earlier than they should after hibernation. This means there isn’t food ready for them to eat, and once out of hibernation their metabolisms rise and they start burning energy. Elena Sherstyanyh brings these struggling bats to her apartment where she provides space where they can return to their hibernation, as well as feeding low-weight bats so they can survive the winter, ready to be released in spring.

Staff at Adelaide's Botanic Park are scrambling to rescue bats who have fallen to the ground from heat exhaustion. Temperatures in the region have reached 39 degrees celsius and are expected to soar to 45.

It is time we as a country recognised that such unequivocal environmental policies that contain neither discretion nor proportionality are not the British way