Flying Foxes

It’s Halloween time again, and around much of the world people are decorating with images of ghosts, vampires, witches, black cats, and, of course, bats. For the superstitious, there may be nothing scarier than the flying foxes of the Philippines, whose 2-meter wingspans make them the

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

Although Eonycteris spelaea pollinates commercially important plants, as illustrated in the recent paper by Sara Bumrungsri and colleagues,  this sometimes costs them their lives. Fruit farmers find the flowers of such plants lying on the ground the morning after bats have visited and

Cage experiments in which the Malagasy endemic Rousettus madagascariensis was presented with ten fruit species (one native and the rest introduced, three of which are commercially important), showed that the bats prefer native and commercially unimportant figs (Ficus polita), rose app

Progress Summary, February 19, 2012 Prepared by Tammy Mildenstein and C.E. Nuevo A progress report is available for the revision of the 1992 IUCN Old World Fruit Bat Conservation Action Plan (see attached below). At this point, the project is >20% through with revising the species