From Nurul Islam Bats are the least studied and most neglected mammals in Bangladesh. Most of the people hate bats due to misconceptions and age-old myths. Some peoples treat the bat as only a pest of crops, nuisance and dirty animal. Besides concurrent outbreak of nipah encephalitis

A mini one-night workshop was host by University of Lampung (UNILA) and conducted by Bukit Barisan Selatan Bat Research Team (BBSBRT) in Way Heni of southwestern Sumatra on July 14 2012. The aim of this workshop is to introduce bats to the local community of Bukit Barisan Selatan (BBS

It was in the mid-vacation of the semester when the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mindanao, Philippines decided to conduct their annual medical-dental outreach program in Pisan, Kabacan, Cotabato, Philippines. The area is one remote area in the municipality

Rabies in humans has declined ten-fold in Thailand in the last twenty years because of the use of vaccines in the treatment of dog bites. So awareness about rabies, at least in dogs, must be high. It is disappointing therefore that the recent paper by Robertson et al in PLoS Neglected

I had the wonderful opportunity to spend 3 days (11 – 13 November 2011) with secondary one to four (age 13 to 16 years old) school students from the Convent School, Taiping, Perak. This group of students comprised members of their own School’s Nature Club. The objectives of the progra

The 1st annual heART Youth Camp was hosted by Congressman Art Yap on the campus of Bohol Island State University – Bilar from June 25-26th, 2011.  The purpose of the camp was to inspire Boholano youth ages 15 to 30 to pursue their career passions by broadening their knowledge ba

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

This two-part video “Into the caves: protecting the bats of the Philippines” details the threats facing the cave bats of the Philippines and illustrates how multiple institutions, both governmental and non-governmental, can work together to promote their conservation by do