Good news for flying fox conservation! In conjunction with recent media coverage highlighting the importance of flying foxes for durian, Peninsular Malaysia’s Department of Wildlife and National Parks have announced that they are taking concrete steps to protect the country’s two flyi

An international team of researchers working in Peninsular Malaysia have found that the giant fruit bats known as flying foxes (Pteropus hypomelanus) are actually important pollinators for the durian (Durio zibethinus) tree, which produces a unique fruit that is highly popular through

This was the title Julie and I did not use in the outreach promoting her paper looking at bite force in 35 species of Malaysian bats (we talked about dogs instead). If you said Hipposideros diadema,  you really need to read the paper, and if you said the Kerivoula you probably intuiti

It all began with a research project on the ecology of the Asiatic Yellow House Bat roosting in the school attics around Tasik Chini, Pahang. It gave me an idea to share the knowledge and information about bats with the school kids here. There are a lot of misconceptions about bats su

The interest in bats started way back in 2011 when a group of students Lee Ching-Ching, Lee Shan-Shan, Kelvina, Mohd Haziq and Shareka Vithias Logendran, led by teacher, Madam Sook-Lai Chan formed a team, The Kid Witness News (KWN), King George V Secondary School (SMK King George V).

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

SEABCRU’s Matt Struebig and colleagues (including SEABCRU members Felica Lasmana and Anthony Turner) report on new research into the consequences of repeated logging for SE Asian bat diversity -with a few surprises on the potential value of heavily logged forests for bat conserv

This volume is edited by Rick Adams and Scott Pedersen, and published by Springer Press It is available as an e book if your institute has access to Springer ebooks, otherwise it is very expensive. I have a chapter that gives my perspective on how our work in Malaysia relates to fores

With my colleagues in Malaysia, I was invited to put together a review of our activities as the Malaysian Bat Conservation Research Unit (MBCRU) for Malaysian Applied Biology. The MBCRU was established in 2001, and in many ways was the model for the SEABCRU. Kingston, T., Juliana, S.,

This is the first compilation of Batu Cave`s faunal species in detail, complete with comments and references for further reading. Besides that, the article includes a brief history of cave surveys (since late 19th century as well as the morphology of the cave. Anthropogenic disturbanc