Nigerian wins global prize for trying to save bats in a country that shuns them

A Nigerian scientist’s “personal experience” with a wildfire, its threat to endangered bats she discovered just days before, and her campaign to protect them, has won her the global Goldman Environmental Prize. Found in the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary in south-eastern Nigeria, Iroro Tanshi said seeing the short-tailed roundleaf bat for the first time in [...] The post Nigerian wins global prize for trying to save bats in a country that shuns them appeared first on Kahawatungu .

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