Global Grassroots Conservation Fund

Philippines: Accomplished
Filipino conservationists, with Global Grassroots support, are building a Bat Learning Center near a much-visited bat roost at Subic Bay. The goal is to create a self-sustaining visitors center that will deliver an effective educational message to a broad spectrum of Philippine society.

Brazil: Accomplished
A Brazilian project provides training in bat conservation and monitoring at the Jau National Park, the world's second largest rain forest reserve so the park's bats can be better protected through habitat-management and community-outreach.

Honduras: Accomplished
Ranchers trying to eliminate vampire bats have been killing bats of all kinds. Thanks to EDUECO, a local conservation group, and the Global Grassroots Conservation Fund, many now understand the extraordinary value of other bat species and are trying to conserve their threatened colonies.

Morocco: Proposed
Conservationists hope to conduct the first-ever survey of the six species of bats in the Tazekka National Park. The survey of caves, mines, and abandoned buildings would be the basis for management recommendations throughout the region.

Thailand: Proposed
Local biologists hope to investigate the role of bats as the principal pollinators of several economically important plants and use their data to educate the public and conserve the cave ecosystems favored by these bats.

India: Proposed
The Chiroptera Conservation and Information Network of South Asia and the Zoo Outreach Organization in India are planning public education programs to change the public (and official) perception of bats as vermin.