It’s time to reserve your place at one of BCI’s 2008 Bat Conservation and Management Workshops in Arizona, California or Pennsylvania. These intensive, six-day sessions offer an unmatched opportunity for professionals and serious amateurs to learn the latest bat research and management techniques and gain invaluable experience in the field....more

Rafinesque’s big-eared bats often roost in an assortment of human-made structures, such as bridges, dilapidated barns and abandoned houses, in the southeastern United States. But their natural roosts – large hollow trees – are fast disappearing from managed forests, forcing many of these rare bats into a variety of artificial alternatives. Now a team of Mississippi researchers has discovered a novel – and virtually free – way to help nature provide hollow-tree roosts. ...more

Heat waves blamed on global climate change are killing alarming numbers of flying foxes in Australia, according to a study by British and Australian biologists.

Researchers documented the deaths of up to six percent of flying foxes in nine colonies in New South Wales on a single day in 2002, when temperatures hit 107.5 degrees F (42 degrees C), reports Agence France-Presse. The international news service said the Australian bats died when they could not cool themselves...more