Award-winning bat specialist, Dr. Iroro Tanshi, led the research team that combed through the forests of Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary and Cross River National Park in Cross River State between May 2015 to January 2018 to carry out intensive bat survey.
Tanshi, Director of Research at SMACON and author of the report said: “You’re not going to find the complement of species that you find here elsewhere in the world, so having their habitat intact, is critical.” “If 15 months of a carefully planned survey by a small research team has updated the knowledge of African bats by yielding 10 new bat species for Nigeria, some of which are of conservation concern, it is evident that much more biodiversity waits to be discovered in previously unsampled places.
This is a call for more carefully planned surveys like this, especially to unsampled areas known to be rich in biodiversity. “It’s very important to get out in the field and do that type of survey work,” said Liza Gadsby, Director of Pandrillus Foundation, a conservation NGO that works to protect endangered primates in Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary.
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