By Dr Tigga Kingston • Apr 17, 2020
Bats have earned an unwarranted reputation as disease spreaders since the Covid-19 outbreak. With April 17 marking world Bat Appreciation Day Dr Tigga Kingston sets out to provide the full picture on the misunderstood mammals, outlining how essential they are to much of human life

By Robin Spiess • Aug 08, 2018
A large portion of Southeast Asia’s bat population is currently at risk of extinction, a conservation expert announced at the 4th annual Southeast Asia Bat Conference hosted in the Philippines earlier this week

By Claire Baker-Munton • Jan 24, 2018
Top read: We return to one of our most popular pieces of 2018, which looked at the Cambodians reliant on bat faeces to sustain their livelihoods. Nutrient rich guano – colloquially known as “black gold” – provides powerful fertility to farmers' lands and a solid income to those who farm bats, and their faeces