Although painted woolly bats live in numerous countries across Asia, in 2019, the IUCN listed them as “near threatened” and decreasing. The “souvenir trade” is one of their main threats.

“Painted woolly bats should be flying free in their native forests, not nailed to a wall in the United States,” said Dianne DuBois, a staff scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “I hope ...

"Painted woolly bats should be flying free in their native forests, not nailed to a wall in the United States," Dianne DuBois, a staff scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, said.

In March 2016, my team and I set off for northern Thailand with the task of filming a sequence about the rarely seen painted bat, (Kerivoula picta) for ‘Thailand: Earth’s Tropical Paradise ...

With at least 109 species, India has an incredible diversity of bats. This includes one of the largest in the world, the Indian flying fox (Pteropus giganteus), one of the most colourful, the orange ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and Monitor Conservation Research Society filed a legal petition today asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect painted woolly bats under ...