Jon Flanders
@jonrflanders.bsky.social
Director, Endangered Species Interventions at Bat Conservation International. Posts are my own.
Happy to share a great article in @apnews.com highlighting our working using environmental DNA (eDNA) to detect a rare species of nectivore bat in Arizona 🦇 apnews.com/article/ariz...
Arizona has added an endangered bat to the list of night-flying creatures that frequent the state
Arizona has added a new species of bat to the list of night-flying creatures that frequent the state.
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Early this year I had the opportunity to work with my colleague Jennifer Barros and our collaborators at Taboa cave in Brazil! While we monitored a colony of Natalus we were able to see other incredible 🦇 species such as Platyrrhinus lineatus! For more information please check batcon.org
Conservation should never be done in isolation. Community based, and community led initiatives are key. This is from a recent community workshop in Fikirini, #Kenya 🦇
It’s out! Here’s a short video highlighting some of the incredible work we’ve involved with in #Kenya saving endangered bats and empowering local communities 🦇 vimeo.com/1039734764
Working to Protect Vital Habitat in Kenya
In coastal Kenya, rapid development is threatening to destroy some of the most important cave roosts for bats, including the Endangered Hildegarde’s tomb bat…
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On Tuesday we’re releasing our final 🦇 videos, focusing on our work in #Kenya. Before then I’m going to highlight some photos from that project. Here’s @mgambarios.bsky.social surveying one of the coral caves.
Back to 🦇 content - this is the endangered Fijian free-tailed bat. There is only one known maternity roost for this species. We’ve just released a video on how we worked with local partners and communities to save this species from extinction: vimeo.com/1038668450
Will get back to posting photos of bats later wanted to recognise the partnerships needed to achieve effective #conservation. This is just some of the #Fiji team working to save the Fijian free-tailed bat 🦇
Bat Conservation International has just released a short series of videos highlighting some of the #bat conservation work we’re doing in #Jamaica 🦇 vimeo.com/1036129420
Infrared video footage of the critically endangered Jamaican flower #bat emerging from the only know maternity roost. 🦇
Cameroon leaf-nosed bat (Doryrhina camerunensis) from Nyungwe National Park - this was the first time this data deficient species had been detected in #Rwanda 🦇
Not sure about anyone else, but I’m feeling as full as this common vampire #bat today (note that this is a very old photo - always wear gloves!). 🦇
Video of Hill’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hilli) taken in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda. 🦇
