Fruit bats are culled in large numbers across their range as agricultural pests, often with methods causing mass suffering.
Fruit bats caught in nets suffer wing injuries, stress, and slow death from entanglement and predation by handlers. Shooting causes non-lethal wounding in many individuals. Fumigation of roost sites kills all individuals including pregnant females and pups, often through slow asphyxiation. Evidence consistently shows that humane exclusion methods are more effective than culling.