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Microbats face extinction due to climate change, vegetation clearance

The critically-endangered southern bent-wing bat is found in Naracoorte's bat cave. (Supplied: Steve Bourne)

One of Australia's tiniest species of bat — weighing about the same as a 50-cent coin — could be extinct in less than 40 years, according to new research.

Population trends show the critically endangered southern bent-wing bat are declining at a rate that would result in the species being wiped out within three generations.

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