About the Research Area
Krau Wildlife Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia
Our team of scientists from the US and Malaysia are dedicated to the conservation of one of the most diverse bat faunas in the world. The ancient rainforests of Peninsular Malaysia are a true treasure house of global bat diversity. They are home to over 10% of the world’s bat fauna and more than 70 species can occur in a single forest, ranging from the tiny three gram woolly bats to the large naked bat weighing in at nearly 200 grams. Intact forests are literally teaming with bats, but as the forests are degraded and fragmented, this diversity is threatened.
Join our researchers in their mission to generate extinction risk profiles for each species, based on the abundance, distribution, longevity and roosting ecology of the bats found in an area of beautiful primary rainforest.
The study site, Krau Wildlife Reserve, is one of the largest remaining examples of the formerly widespread forest ecosystem of Peninsular Malaysia. Not only is it a bat paradise, with more species of insectivorous bat than anywhere else in the world, but it is also a refuge for over 150 species of mammals, including tigers, leopards, gaur, deer, tapirs, sun bears, civets, gibbons and leaf monkeys, and nearly 300 species of birds.
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