In an article published in the newspaper Oryx, Isabella Mandl (Doctor in wildlife and conservation biology: former technical assistant of the ecology research team at Dahari), details how GPS sensors installed on two bats made it possible to identify new roost sites and identify their eating habits.

 »It’s not every day that you get to see one of the world’s most endangered bats up close! To study the movements of the Livingstone’s fruit bat in the wild and develop targeted conservation strategies that will protect their habitat in Comoros, Dahari captured and tagged two Livingstone’s fruit bats with GPS trackers in 2019. The data showed that the bats were highly mobile, frequently moving between roosts in the Moya Forest region and feeding on old trees that were left standing in fields across the landscape. The study will continue in the coming years to better understand how to protect this endangered species.

Find out more here (in English): Tracking in the dark: shedding light on bat behavior for conservation (oryxthejournal.org)

Using GPS tracking for fruit bat conservation | Oryx | Cambridge Core