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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

Philippine fruit bats may be entirely new species of their own, DNA suggests

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2020

Cambodian “bat man” bolsters the fight against dengue fever

Claire Baker-Munton 26 Dec 2019

Nail paint helps researchers estimate numbers of rare Cuban bat species

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Sep 2019

Tiny tracking tags help decode how echolocating bats navigate

Lakshmi Supriya 30 May 2019

On a wing and a prayer? Evidence for ways to conserve bats (commentary)

Claire Wordley 5 Apr 2019

Latam Eco Review: Bolivia’s Batman and Peru’s birdy cave drawings

Mongabay.com 16 Mar 2019

In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

John Cannon 19 Feb 2019

Jammin’ at wind farms may help save bats

Mary Bates 11 Feb 2019

Culls push endangered fruit bat closer to extinction in Mauritius

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2018

Photos: Here are the winners of the 2018 British Ecological Society photo contest

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2018

Bat Week: the super powers of bats (photos)

Sarah H. Olson and Julie Larsen Maher 24 Oct 2018

Decoding the language of bats key to their conservation

Javier Lyonnet 8 Oct 2018

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