World’s most endangered bat could soon be extinct due to rapid forest loss

Mongabay
Jan 10, 2017, 4:36 pm171 pts
Widespread deforestation is causing severe population decline in the little-known Livingstone’s fruit bat (Pteropus livingstonii), a new study has found. The rare bat is found only on two small islands of Anjouan and Mohéli in the Comoros archipelago, off the southeast coast of Africa, where its population…

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