{"id":205458,"date":"2026-01-18T14:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=205458"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:55:05","slug":"rare-bats-at-risk-as-iron-ore-mine-advances-in-guineas-nimba-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=205458","title":{"rendered":"Rare bats at risk as iron ore mine advances in Guinea\u2019s Nimba Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, researchers from Bat Conservation International, Cameroon\u2019s University of Maroua and the American Museum of Natural History entered abandoned mining tunnels in Guinea\u2019s Nimba Mountains as part of an environmental and social impact assessment for an iron ore project. They wanted to better understand the habitat and behavior of the critically endangered Lamotte\u2019s roundleaf [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2025\/12\/rare-bats-at-risk-as-iron-ore-mine-advances-in-guineas-nimba-mountains\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, researchers from Bat Conservation International, Cameroon\u2019s University of Maroua and the American Museum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205458-rare-bats-at-risk-as-iron-ore-mine-advances-in-guineas-nimba-mountains.jpg",768,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205458-rare-bats-at-risk-as-iron-ore-mine-advances-in-guineas-nimba-mountains-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205458-rare-bats-at-risk-as-iron-ore-mine-advances-in-guineas-nimba-mountains-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205458-rare-bats-at-risk-as-iron-ore-mine-advances-in-guineas-nimba-mountains.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205458-rare-bats-at-risk-as-iron-ore-mine-advances-in-guineas-nimba-mountains.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205458-rare-bats-at-risk-as-iron-ore-mine-advances-in-guineas-nimba-mountains.jpg",768,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205458-rare-bats-at-risk-as-iron-ore-mine-advances-in-guineas-nimba-mountains.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205458-rare-bats-at-risk-as-iron-ore-mine-advances-in-guineas-nimba-mountains.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205458-rare-bats-at-risk-as-iron-ore-mine-advances-in-guineas-nimba-mountains.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205458-rare-bats-at-risk-as-iron-ore-mine-advances-in-guineas-nimba-mountains-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=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205458","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=205458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}