Welcome to #WingedWednesday Webinars!
Bats without Borders is dedicated to protecting bat populations across southern Africa and given our current global bat conservation challenges, our aim for these webinars is to connect people across Africa and beyond to share current research methods/findings and strengthen bat research and conservation capacity. As this is our first webinar series, it is a steep learning curve and welcome your ideas (speakers and topics) and training needs. as well as feedback on the talks.
Initially, we are aiming to hold a weekly webinar every Wednesday from 15H00 (Central African time), ranging from 30 minutes up to an hour depending on the speaker(s) and topic. We are scheduling in a diverse range of topics from latest research methods and findings findings and survey methods and analysis skills, to environmental education and engaging policy-makers.
Our webinars are being held on Zoom, please pre-register by completing the sign up form below, and we'll be able to keep you updated on our #WingedWednesday Webinars and send you joining instructions for each webinar.
Please note: you only need to register once, we are limited to 100 participants per webinars, so we will be sending out signing instructions to everyone and the first 100 to login on the day will be admitted. We apologise in advance if anyone misses out but we are hoping to record these webinars and you can watch them later.
Initially, we are aiming to hold a weekly webinar every Wednesday from 15H00 (Central African time), ranging from 30 minutes up to an hour depending on the speaker(s) and topic. We are scheduling in a diverse range of topics from latest research methods and findings findings and survey methods and analysis skills, to environmental education and engaging policy-makers.
Our webinars are being held on Zoom, please pre-register by completing the sign up form below, and we'll be able to keep you updated on our #WingedWednesday Webinars and send you joining instructions for each webinar.
Please note: you only need to register once, we are limited to 100 participants per webinars, so we will be sending out signing instructions to everyone and the first 100 to login on the day will be admitted. We apologise in advance if anyone misses out but we are hoping to record these webinars and you can watch them later.
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Upcoming webinars
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Webinar title
Winning friends for bats
Bats and COVID-19 separating facts from fiction
Bats and climate change
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Please note from July we are having webinars twice a month
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8 July 2020
22 July 2020
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Ms Helen Taylor-Boyd
Dr Cullen Geiselman
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Zambia - bat conservation takes flight
Bat Eco-Interactions Database: records of bats as pollinators, seed dispersers, insect consumers, and more.
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If you are enjoying our #WingedWednesday webinars, would you consider making a donation to help us cover the costs and help to keep them going? Any donation you are able to make, makes a big difference and will supports our work.
Catch up on previous webinars
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27 May 2020
Ara Monadjem is a Professor at the University of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). He is a zoologist, focusing on the ecology and conservation of African small mammals (bats and rodents) and large birds (vultures, eagles and storks).
Ara has traveled extensively across Africa surveying bats and is one of the co-authors of the Bats of southern and Central Africa book. We are delighted to announce that the second edition will be released in August 2020. |
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20 May 2020
Hernani F. M. Oliveira did his PhD at Queen Mary University of London investigating the impact of severe floods and droughts on molecular food webs of bats in rainforests in Costa Rica. He then did a Postdoc at Charles University on altitudinal and seasonal changes on biodiversity patterns of Mt Cameroon (Africa). More recently, he did a Postdoc at Iowa State University studying seed dispersal of Mariana fruit bats on Pacific island of Rota (Oceania).
With more than 2 million Km2, the Brazilian savannas (Cerrado) are a biodiversity hotspot, with a rich bat fauna (~120 bat species) that has high deforestation rates mainly due to cattle ranching and soybean cultivation. During the webinar, Hernani F. M. Oliveira, explores how the diversity of bats and their interactions on the Brazilian savannas are affected and respond to such threats. Google citations |
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13 May 2020
Our first speaker, Nancy Simmons is an internationally renowned evolutionary biologist and morphologist, her interests range from patterns of species diversity, biogeography and evolution of flight, echolocation and dietary habits and early Tertiary bat fossils. She completed her PhD at the University of California and is currently the Curator-in-Charge of the Department of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History and a Professor at the Richard Gilder Graduate School.
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