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Bats may comprise at least 40% of the overall mammal diversity in Rwanda. Image courtesy of Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association – RWCA.

Discovery of critically endangered bat in Rwanda leads to conservation talks

Aimable Twahirwa 25 Apr 2025
Chemical lures designed to mimic the scent of ripe fruit have helped attract fruit-eating bats from the genus Carollia, such as Seba's short-tailed bat (C. perspicillata).

Lures that attract seed-dispersing bats could aid tropical reforestation

Sean Mowbray 30 Jan 2025
A Himalayan leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros armiger)

Great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat finally confirmed in Bangladesh

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 27 Dec 2024
A pale spear-nosed bat covered in pollen.

Brazil natural landscape degradation drives toxic metal buildup in bats

Sean Mowbray 11 Dec 2024
Little brown bats shows symptoms of White-nose Syndrome in Canoe Creek Mine in Pennsylvania. Photo courtesy of Michael Schirmacher/ Bat Conservation International

When bats die, farmers use more pesticides & infant deaths rise, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 25 Oct 2024
Painted woolly bat

‘Senseless’ U.S. trinket trade threatens distinctive Asian bat, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 30 Aug 2024

Turning bat caves into sanctuaries: Interview with Mexican ecologist Rodrigo Medellín

Thelma Gómez Durán 29 Jan 2024
An orange-furred bat (Hipposideros fuliginosus) with dark grey wings being held up in the light against a dark background. Image courtesy of Diogo Ferreira.

Study: Tall trees and shade boost bat diversity on Africa’s cocoa farms

Sean Mowbray 17 Aug 2023
Dibya Raj Dahal.

‘Small mammals play a big role’: Q&A with Nepali researcher Dibya Raj Dahal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Jul 2023

Birds and bats help Peruvian cacao farmers gain higher yields, study says

Liz Kimbrough 4 Jul 2023

In Nepal, Chepang take up the challenge to revive their cultural keystone tree

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 May 2023
A trefoil horseshoe bat

Flooding for hydropower dams hits forest-reliant bats hard, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 26 May 2023
Lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae). Image by Alan Schmierer via Flickr (public domain).

Social media can be a bat’s best friend (commentary)

Emily Eilers 9 May 2023
A Sulawesi flying fox.

Community conservation benefits Sulawesi flying foxes, but more is needed, experts say

Sean Mowbray 11 Apr 2023
Mount Namuli.

Forests & finance: Setbacks for a rare bat, and progress for an oil pipeline

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2023

New cave bat species in Sri Lanka highlights need for more research

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Sep 2022

Education can change local perception of bats, help conserve species, study says

Sean Mowbray 12 Sep 2022

Seeing through the swarm: How hawks hunt bat prey

Liz Kimbrough 23 Aug 2022

‘Comical’ bat not seen in 40 years is found again in a Rwandan park

Liz Kimbrough 8 Mar 2022

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021

‘To change policies, insert yourself in them’: Q&A with biologist Liliana Dávalos

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 29 Oct 2021

Biosurveillance of markets and legal wildlife trade needed to curb pandemic risk: Experts

Gloria Dickie 14 Oct 2021

The Covid-19 question: How do we prevent future pandemics?

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2021

‘Spectacular’ orange-furred bat described from West African mountain

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jan 2021
Coral reef in at Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photo by Beth Watson / Ocean Image Bank.

Top positive environmental stories from 2020

Liz Kimbrough 30 Dec 2020

Does Lucius Fox know? Tiny tech tracks bats (and more)

Liz Kimbrough 3 Jun 2020

Endangered bats are evolving to fight off an exotic fungal disease

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 May 2020

Bats: Resistant to viruses, but not to humans

Thelma Gómez Durán 13 May 2020
Artibeus phaeotis. Photo by Adrian Forsyth

In defense of bats in a COVID world (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 11 May 2020
Iroro Tanshi with harp trap at Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary. Image courtesy Iroro Tanshi and Benneth Obitte.

Young Nigerian researcher goes to bat against forest fires

Linus Unah 30 Apr 2020

In the Philippines’ Boracay, flying foxes are going, going, gone

Jun N. Aguirre 27 Apr 2020

What one of the world’s most active volcanoes tells us about missing trees

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Apr 2020

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