OPINION (ETH) – Fires, Hail storms, dust storms and now a bat plague of “Biblical Proportions” is filing the skies above Ingham, Queensland, and there are so many bats that locals are reporting that the local hospital’s helicopter was not even able to land and parents are afraid to send their children to school.
According to a report from the Daily Star, In Ingham, North Queensland, they are calling this thing a colossal ‘bat tornado’. “It just seems to me that every bat in Australia is now in Ingham,” Mayor of Hinchinbrook Council Raymon Jayo told news magazine show A Current Affair. He went on to say: ” There are four different species and because they all have young at different times, there’s hardly a window of opportunity when we can interact with these bats to try and move them on.”
Unfortunately, the bats there are a protected species and there are strict limits on what can actually be done to deter the animals. One Queensland-born politician Bob Katter said if it were up to him, he’d “be down here with a shotgun”. “There comes a point where I think not breaking the law really becomes ‘dogging it,’ as we say in North Queensland.” he told reporters. “And I think that point has probably been reached.”
Why use the Bible with this? It is not a Biblical plague. This is happening because humans have taken over the areas where these bats used to roost. Now the bats have nowhere to go. People keep cutting down trees, so the bats try to find trees in which to roost. These bats are extremely important to the environment. God created them for his purpose to aid us in seed disbursement and pollination. We (the people of the “affected” area) are now reaping what others have sown.