{"id":177766,"date":"2025-09-21T21:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=177766"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:15:29","slug":"african-bats-require-monitoring-in-protected-areas-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=177766","title":{"rendered":"African bats require monitoring in protected areas, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bats play a vital role in African ecosystems, from pollination and seed dispersal to pest control, significantly contributing to local ecology and livelihoods. The conventional thinking has been that protected areas offer a safe haven for many animal species, including bats. However, a recent study suggests that bats have been largely overlooked in monitoring and [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/short-article\/2025\/08\/african-bats-require-monitoring-in-protected-areas-study-finds\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bats play a vital role in African ecosystems, from pollination and seed dispersal to pest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177766-african-bats-require-monitoring-in-protected-areas-study-finds.jpg",768,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177766-african-bats-require-monitoring-in-protected-areas-study-finds-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177766-african-bats-require-monitoring-in-protected-areas-study-finds-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177766-african-bats-require-monitoring-in-protected-areas-study-finds.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177766-african-bats-require-monitoring-in-protected-areas-study-finds.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177766-african-bats-require-monitoring-in-protected-areas-study-finds.jpg",768,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177766-african-bats-require-monitoring-in-protected-areas-study-finds.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177766-african-bats-require-monitoring-in-protected-areas-study-finds.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177766-african-bats-require-monitoring-in-protected-areas-study-finds.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177766-african-bats-require-monitoring-in-protected-areas-study-finds-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}