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Lubee Bat Conservancy - Saving Bats. Conserving Ecosystems
Lubee Bat Conservancy - Saving Bats. Conserving Ecosystems
Partners with IUCN, SSC, & Bat Specialist Group

Global Fruit Bat Conservation Program 

Fruit Bat Conservation
Tropical forest ecosystems contain the majority of fruit bat diversity. Natural forest ecosystems in the tropics also produce goods and ecosystem services that in turn sustain local and regional economies. Escalating threats to tropical forests and the fruit bats that help maintain and regenerate forest ecosystems calls for conservation oriented research and action that allows us to understand, conserve, and responsibly manage tropical fruit bats and their habitats. 

Lubee Bat Conservancy undertakes and supports fundamental research, conservation science and education/teaching programs both in the US and in strategically selected regions where fruit bat diversity is high, where endangered species are on the brink of extinction, and where species and habitats fall outside protected areas and the focus of larger conservation organizations.

Our conservation strategy is based on implementing range-wide science-based conservation priorities in areas where we have good relations with in situ partners. These consensus priorities are set out in the Old World Fruit Bat Action Plan by the IUCN-SSC Chiroptera Specialist Group (CSG)(Micklebugh 1992), in the American Zoological Association’s (AZA) Bat Taxon Advisory Group collection plan and outlined by the Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE), of which Lubee is a partner. While our portfolio of projects is diverse, priority is given to projects on flying foxes addressing one or more of five priority conservation challenges; endangered species, bats and the bushmeat crisis, population monitoring and saving key sites, managing bat-human conflict in agriculture, ecology of bats and emerging infectious diseases.