How a hunger for teeth is driving a bat toward extinction

Mongabay
Dec 29, 2017, 11:51 am209 pts
On the island of Makira, in the eastern Solomon Islands, bat teeth are more valuable than paper money. But their use as a currency has contributed to widespread hunting of flying foxes and is driving one species toward extinction. Now, conservationists are trying to use this local tradition to save the bats and…

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