Bats

Integrating Research and Education for the Conservation of Cuban Bats and their Habitats

The project aims to continue a long-term ecological research of bats and through educative actions and technical trainings build capacities in important areas for the conservation of Cuban bats.

Empowering Local People to Conserve Bats in North Cameroon

The overall aim of this project is to create public awareness and participation in the conservation of bat community in north Cameroon.

Factors Affecting Patterns of Diversity in Bats and its Consequences for Virus Prevalence: An Analysis of Assemblages in Endangered Neotropical Savannas

I aim to understand drivers affecting diversity and functionality of bat assemblages in the endangered Brazilian Cerrado. I will assess the effects of fragmentation onto bat richness, composition and spatio-temporal dynamics, and on the prevalence of infectious diseases. Finally, I will model changes in the provision of ecosystem services by bats and in the prevalence of diseases under future climate/socio-economic change scenarios.

A Program for Conservation of Biodiversity and Endemism of Bats in Scattered Forests and Cave Complex in North Western, Vietnam

The goal of this project is to perform a comprehensive program to conserve bat populations inhabiting in remaining forest areas and cave systems within protected areas in North Western, Vietnam (NW)

Conserving the Straw-Coloured Fruit Bat, Eidolon Helvum (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae) and its Habitats through Networking of Conservation Volunteers in Ghana

This project seeks to reduce threats to the straw-coloured fruit bat by mapping active roosting sites and establishing a pilot network of local conservation volunteer groups in Ghana.

The Distribution, Ecology and Conservation of Cave-Dwelling Bats in Southern Africa

The overall project aim is to ascertain current distributions for focal threatened bat species by using use ecological niche modelling and surveys to ground truth these predictions and to extrapolate the potential impacts of climate change on distributions these species.

Diversity, Conservation Education and Awareness Among People for Usefulness of Bats in Punjab

This project aims to explore bat fauna of the Punjab (Pakistan), train post-graduate students and faculty to study bats and create awareness among youngsters about the importance of bats around them.

Altitudinal Variation in Bats, Understanding People’s Perception to Bats and Creating Bat Conservation Awareness in Sagarmatha (Everest) Zone, Eastern Nepal

The aim of the study is to document diversity, population and habitats along elevation, to understand local’s knowledge on bat’s importance and to adopt awareness actions for its conservation.

Strengthening the Support and Scientific Evidence for Conservation of ‘Europe’s Amazon’ through Monitoring of Bats as Bio-indicators and Involvement of Community

The project aims to establish monitoring protocols for bats that would provide a baseline for detecting future biodiversity changes along with raising awareness and engaging local community members into monitoring activities.

Changing the Face of Farmer-Wildlife Conflicts: The Economic Potential of Bat-Discarded Coffee Beans in South-Western Sumatra, Indonesia

This project aims to reduce farmer-wildlife conflicts by development of a new value-added coffee product, bat-discarded coffee beans, in coffee agricultural area of south-western Sumatra.