Celebrating a Milestone for Bat Biodiversity

Citizen science has become an essential tool to gather vast amounts of environmental data worldwide. While the power of social media for marketing campaigns is well documented, few studies have focuse...

Recent surveys in the Congolian rainforest have improved knowledge of bat diversity, but data on free-tailed bats remain scarce. A male Mops tomensis, previously known only from São Tomé, was capture...

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Climate change is altering wildlife assemblages, although limited long-term data hinders understanding of its impacts. Bats are widely reported to be …

The Vincent Weir Scientific Award aims to reward and encourage research on the conservation biology of bats by new researchers, and to recognise the lat...

Agricultural expansion and intensification are major drivers of biodiversity loss, particularly in tropical regions. Cacao agroforestry systems can bo…

Join us for updates on Mammal Conservation Europe, and talks on two of Europe's strangest European animals: Blind mole-rats and Hedgehogs

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Widespread declines of terrestrial insects are reported across habitats and are associated with drivers at the landscape scale. Current monitoring sch…

Long-distance migration, common in passerine birds, is rare and poorly studied in bats. Piloting a 1.2-gram IoT (Internet of Things) tag with onboard processing, we tracked the daily location, tempera...

Greater mouse-eared bat was declared extinct in the UK but ecologists now believe population recovery is possible

Little is known about the winter bat activity in Bulgaria, which poses challenges in monitoring potential deviations in their behaviour as a consequence of the warming climate. Using passive acoustic ...

Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation could imperil the region’s rich wildlife. “We found areas within the centr...