Talk 14 - #DiogoFFerreira @acaptainplanet presents his #research - '#Bats (and #birds) enhance yields in #Afrotropical #cacao #agroforests only under high shade'. #AfriPopo2022 #AfricanBats #PhDlife #exclusionexperiments #shadecover #batscoolerthanbirds

Thanks #bats and #birds for the great #ecosystemservices and #shoutout to the great #team from #Cameroon! 🇨🇲🦇🦇

More awesome bat people! Paul Webala Helen TB Bismark Opoku patrick jules ATAGANA Edward Hurme 🦇 Dina Dechmann ⭐️ Teague O'Mara ana_gledis @KirstyJPark

What a wonderful bunch of participants at the 'Bat Acoustics for Academics' that I ran recently in Zambia for The Harrison Institute (Paul Bates & Beatrix Lanzinger) and Bats without Borders (RCooper-Bohannon with 🇺🇦)! #interdisciplinary #capacitystrengthening #Africanbats

Did you know that 70% of the lovely 🍫 that you eat every single day (amirite!) comes from #Africa? 😱 Our new paper about 🦇 & 🐦 pest suppression services in African cacao farms is finally out! Let's dig into it 🧵1/8

Lots of great collaborators!!

Last 🦇 night trapping (kassadou, Guinea 🇬🇳)

@acaptainplanet presented how good practices can benefit 🦇 diversity ➡️ #EcosystemServices in Cameroon cacao farms 🍫 #SCCS2023

Great work patrick jules ATAGANA presenting at #ICCB2023 on #bats in #Cameroon and potential distribution #climatechangeimpacts!

Climate change impacts on bats. Dr. Patrick patrick jules ATAGANA and Prof. Eric Bakwo Fils address bat range changes in Cameroon in response to climate change. #iccb

Paul Webala Save the Bats Conservation Research Africa African Bat Conservation MASAIMARA UNIVERSITY Rodrigo A Medellin Bat World Sanctuary WILD OUTDOORS KENYA WildlifeWarriorsTV National Geographic Bat Conservation International Iroro Tanshi, PhD Small Mammal Conservation Organization (SMACON) Benneth Obitte, PhD Whitley Fund for Nature Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) Tigga Kingston Wildlife nigeria Ashmi Bunsy ERA, Indian Ocean Mauritius Tourism Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) kibiwot Sospeter Scary predictions of loss of suitable habitat range for bats in Cameroon’s Dja Biosphere Reserve 😱! patrick jules ATAGANA talks us through predicted #climatechange effects on some of the (currently) most common bat species in the region

Paul Webala Save the Bats Conservation Research Africa African Bat Conservation MASAIMARA UNIVERSITY Rodrigo A Medellin Bat World Sanctuary WILD OUTDOORS KENYA WildlifeWarriorsTV National Geographic Bat Conservation International Iroro Tanshi, PhD Small Mammal Conservation Organization (SMACON) Benneth Obitte, PhD Whitley Fund for Nature Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) Tigga Kingston Wildlife nigeria Ashmi Bunsy ERA, Indian Ocean Mauritius Tourism Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) kibiwot Sospeter patrick jules ATAGANA Rufford Foundation IDEA WILD Panel discussion time!

A privilege to learn from so many leading bat biologists today at #ICCB2023. Research is expanding 🙌🏼but our biggest joint challenge remains: how do we spread the message of evidence- based importance of bats to policy makers and communities?

Matthew McKown Conservation Metrics shares the secrets of how to study under/unrepresented species in acoustic reference libraries. How do we find it if we don't know what it sounds like? How the critically endangered Lamotte's roundleaf #bat was found...Bat Conservation International @ICCB2023

Managed to catch Jeremy Froidevaux 's great talk on #energyinfrastructure #impacts on #bats at #ICCB2023 Stirling Natural Sciences BES Stirling

Fantastic progress presented on research on #insectpestconsumption by #bats along #landscapegradients in #Zambia & #Ghana by Cecilia Montauban 🦇🐾 from Imperial College London at #ICCB2023! #Sentinel Joe Tobias @adam

really nice report about the incredible work of Christian Ziegler on the #bats in #Kasanka National Park smoton.com/ij1mwrtf-mait8… The Kasanka Trust Kasanka National Park Zambia Eidolon Monitoring Network Roland Kays MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Helen TB #fruitbats #Eidolon

Just spoke to the @BCI MENTOR-BAT fellows from Cameroon, Colombia and Indonesia. Thrilled to have shared the amazing work that Small Mammal Conservation Organization (SMACON) is doing to save the Short-tailed Roundleaf bat in Nigeria, Eq. Guinea and Cameroon. Can’t wait to see these champions take on the world!