Critically Endangered

Mirimiri – Fiji’s National Mammal

The Mirimiri is one of the world’s rarest bats and is known only from the cloud forests on Taveuni Island, Fiji.

Researchers surveyed for 40 nights and only captured one Mirimiri. BCI is developing plans to work with colleagues in Fiji and from Australia to identify its critical roost sites and enhance protection of the habitat upon which it relies.

San Antonio votes YES

For the past two years, BCI supporters have stepped forward to protect Bracken Bat Cave, the largest colony of bats in the world!

Thanks to their help, today the City of San Antonio voted to invest $5 million to help acquire 1,520 acres of open space adjacent to BCI’s Preserve.

Protect the Edwards Aquifer and Save the Cave

For the past year, San Antonio City officials, Bat Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy and many other organizations and community leaders have been searching for a solution to avert a 3,500-home development over the Edwards Aquifer and adjacent to BCI’s Bracken Cave Preserve. We are very close to solving this dilemma.

Bats, Ebola, and Infectious Disease

The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa is a still-accelerating human tragedy in a region beset with limited capacity to curtail the disease. As of October 8, 2014, more than 8,400 people in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, and the United Sates had contracted Ebola since March, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)

Protect Mega-Populations

Africa's Greatest Migration

Every year, between 8 and 10 million straw-colored fruit bats migrate to Kasanka National Park in Zambia. The sky fills with these magnificent animals as they depart their tree roosts for nightly foraging. BCI has partnered with Kasanka Trust Ltd. to protect the “bat forest” from fires and other disturbances frequently caused by poachers.

Prevent Extinction

Where is Hill’s Horseshoe Bat?

Hill’s horseshoe bat was last seen over three decades ago, and no photos from the wild exist. The species is known to occur in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda, where it is believed to be declining drastically.

BCI plans to launch surveys of potential cave roosts with colleagues from Rwanda and Kenya to re-discover this species and inform our future conservation efforts.