Suzie is a tiny, fragile infant flying fox who has endured horrendous suffering in her short life. A poacher in the Seychelles stole her from a tree while her mother was out foraging for food, and then horrifically abused her.

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Just a helpless infant torn from her mother, Suzie was blinded after being beaten and then used as a tourist attraction.

The poacher beat Suzie so badly he blinded and maimed her. He then locked her in a tiny cage, took her to a popular tourist spot on the island of Mahé, and cajoled tourists into paying to touch her and pose for photos.

Our partner, Protect Paradise Seychelles (PPS), rushed to the rescue as soon as it heard about little Suzie’s plight.

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Suzie’s wings were badly damaged from her repeated, futile attempts to escape her filthy metal cage. She is certainly blind in one of her eyes; the fight is on to try and save the other.  

Our partner rushed Suzie to its sanctuary, where she joined PPS’s many other rescues.

Suzie needs specialized care and calcium-enriched formula to survive.

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Female flying foxes give birth to a single pup at a time. Infants only start learning to fly at around three months old, and are completely dependent on their mothers for the first six months of their lives.

When infants become too heavy to carry, their mothers fly out at night to forage, leaving their babies safely in a tree – or so they think. Little Suzie would have been waiting for her mother to come back, stuck in a tree and unable to escape, when the man beat her with a stick and stole her.

Flying foxes in the Seychelles live on fruit-and-nectar diets and play a vital role in pollinating hundreds of the fruit we eat – bananas, mangoes and avocados among them. 

Not everyone knows the importance and fragility of flying foxes, but we know how important it is to fight cruelty by saving one creature at a time. Please, show your compassion to our planet’s every living creature – including little Suzie – by helping them with a donation today.