We’ve put together a handy infographic with all of the important dates leading up to the conference in August. Make sure to add them to your calendar! #ibrc2025 #ausbats #bats #batresearch

This posh British shop sells bat ornaments alongside dead beetles. And Google has thousands more.... The Global North fuels collection in the South and it needs to stop. Find out more in our paper @bronwenhunter.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #bats @malik-oedin.bsky.social 🌍🦇

Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻@dezene.me · 2y ago

Why the heck is there such a thing as "online ornamental trade in bats"? 🦇 Between conservation concerns, disease 🦠 spread, and sheer cruelty – why? 🌏 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Join on Wednesday 26th February at 4 pm southern African time (9am Eastern time or 2pm GMT) to hear directly from the GBN leadership about the great work being carried out around the world and how GBN is helping to connect people and networks.

Women in Bat Science 2025

We're delighted to be hosting the Global Bat Network leadership for a presentation and panel discussion about #bats #womeninSTEM #networks

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🌍✨ Just published in @ambio-journal.bsky.social : "Nature under pressure in New Caledonia: Social crisis in a world key biodiversity hotspot" 🌿🦇🐠🌴 With @vajas-pablo.bsky.social Yvy Dombal & Tyrone Lavery 👉 Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Biodiversity #NewCaledonia #Resilience 🌱

Nature under pressure in New Caledonia: Social crisis in a world key biodiversity hotspot - Ambio

Since May 2024, New Caledonia has faced civil unrest, economic collapse, food insecurity, and social instability, severely disrupting environmental management in this globally significant biodiversity...

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In New Caledonia, mining companies extract nickel for electric car batteries from the soil by razing the forests that evolved on it. Ben Crair writes about how the engines of the so-called green transition could leave Earth’s most verdant corner in tatters.

The Island Where Environmentalism Implodes

New Caledonia is home to thousands of species found nowhere else—and to nickel that companies like Tesla desperately need.

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New post published in #EcolightsForSeabirds website: New Caledonia, a killing field for threatened Gould’s petrel and at least two other petrel species #seabirds #lightpollution ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/new-cal...

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A new paper reports on a benevolent campaign to save petrels stranded in New Caledonia (Coral Sea) during three consecutive years. Three petrel species were the most commonly grounded: 80% were...

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Our paper out today: “Spillover is an ecological process… While the human health issues arising from spillover events…are addressed by epidemiological and biomedical countermeasures…, the ecological aspects of spillover necessitate ecological solutions” 🧪🌏 t.co/cL4qY5Pwnk

Ecological countermeasures to prevent pathogen spillover and subsequent pandemics - Nature Communications

In this Perspective, the authors discuss the importance of preventing zoonotic spillover to prevent pandemics. They highlight mechanisms by which environmental changes can enable spillover, identify e...

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🦇🦠If you ever wondered about the zoonotic risk bat-associated parasites might pose and their potential role in pathogen spillover look into our new paper in @TrendsParasitol www.cell.com/trends/paras... 🕷️📷: @NikolaRahme 🦇🪰📷: @tszentivanyi

Et voilà, our field hygiene guidelines are now available in #French 🦇🇫🇷 🧑‍🎨! A huge merci to @aigverte.bsky.social , Malik Oedin, Palamanga Parfait Thiombiano for assisting with the #translation 🙏 Partagez avec vos réseaux! www.iucnbsg.org/uploads/6/5/... #FieldWork #ChauvesSouris #ecologie

Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro@juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you are a researcher working with #bats 🦇 make sure you follow our new IUCN #Bat Specialist Group Field Hygiene guidelines. Let's work together to protect bats and people 🤝 www.iucnbsg.org/uploads/6/5/... #ecology #FieldWork #wildlife #conservation #BatConservation

🌍 "Conflicts in New Caledonia endanger one of the world’s most unique biodiversity hotspots. " Honored to co-author this with @vajas-pablo.bsky.social, with contributions from Yvy Dombal and Tyrone Lavery. Let's amplify the call for action! 🔗Read more in Nature : www.nature.com/articles/d41...