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Congratulations to the Prince of Songkla University team for a very relevant publication on the effects of rubber plantations on the diversity bats in peninsular Thailand. Phansamai Phommexay used acoustic monitoring and trapping to compare the diversity and activity of understorey in

In an important paper in press in Biological Conservation, Mark Harrison and colleagues describe how questionnaire surveys of hunters and market vendors in Central Kalimantan revealed decreasing availability of flying foxes, from which it can be inferred that populations are declining

With the recent addition of Rhinolophus affinis, Cambodia’s bat list now grows to 50 species. In July’s issue of the Cambodian Journal of Natural History, Phouthone Kingsada and colleagues bring together all the bat species currently recognised in the peer-reviewed literat

Matt Struebig and I want to share with you the strange newspaper articles from Java about an orange bat stealing money from people’s houses. This is a new for me, and obviously a very unhelpful perception for bat conservation (especially if you read the final line of the article

It is great to report on further new papers relating to the taxonomy of SE Asian bats.  Congratulations to Noor Haliza Hasan and Mohd Tajuddin Abdullah on their paper on woolly bats (Kerivoula) from Malaysia. This is a particularly ‘awkward’ group and they have done us all

With their unpigmented thumb pads, and outwardly-displaced second upper incisor, bats of the vespertilionid genus Glischropus are fairly distinctive. Two species have long been recognized, the widespread G. tylopus, and G. javanus known only from Java. However, in a recent issue of Zo