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The wonderful story of Batty and Pitty  has now been translated into Malay and Spanish!  You can download copies from the Brunei Outreach page here Many thanks/terimah kasih banyak/muchas gracias to Michael and Caroline Schöner for increasing the accessibility of this wonderful story.

For the first time that scientists have demonstrated the pest suppression services of insectivorous bats and birds in Southeast Asia. Miss Bea Maas, a PhD student from University of Goettingen and her colleagues, found that exclusion of bats and birds from cacao trees resulted in a si

The SEABCRU Flying Fox Workshop in Phnom Penh last week (October 17th-19th) was a great success, with 24 participants drawn from NGOs, universities, ministries and research institutes from Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.  We had an intense three days with activities intended to insure

This month brings the SEABCRU Flying Fox Workshop 2013 to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This follows on from last year’s SEABCRU Flying Fox Workshop in Hat Yai, Thailand, which brought experts and practitioners from across Southeast Asia together to work on protocols and methods for monitorin

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Conservation Fund has awarded Bat Conservation International $8,000 in support of Saving Cave Bats in Cambodia, Laos, & Vietnam: Investing in the Bat Champions of Tomorrow. This collaborative project will be led by SEABCRU’s Dr. Neil Furey, Faun

Many years ago the Malaysian Bat Conservation Research Unit developed an outreach role-play activity called “Saving Batu Caves” (which you can download from this page). In the activity, participants represented different stakeholders, from conservationists to a limestone e