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Monthly Report Monthly Report September 2018 The “had enough of your crap” bat Botswana long eared bat, Laephotis botswanae The “refusing to write any more1 of Matt’s dumb reports” bat ABC Staff Dr Emma Stone Matt Town Godwin Zimba Founder/Coordinator Research Manager Community Engagement Officer Becky Hazlewood Karen Shevlin Andrew Mcvinish Research Assistant, Lilongwe Entomologist, Vwaza Marsh Research Assistant, Lilongwe Susan Eshelman Jo Hawker Kelly Rosier Research Assistant Research Assistant Research Assistant 1 Contents ABC News… ............................................................................................................................. 3 Staff Member Returns to ABC ………..…………………………………………………...………. 3 Bishop Mackenzie International School Field Course …………………………………...…...3 Biosphere Expeditions join us at Vwaza Marsh …..………… .………………………….……..,4 Update on urban team guano trials …………………....……………………………………….6 Summary of work .....................................................................................................................7 ABC Project Species List ..........................................................................................................7 BMP Map of Vwaza ..................................................................................................................9 BMP Map of Lilongwe .............................................................................................................10 Sponsors of ABC......................................................................................................................11 2 ABC News Staff Member Returns to ABC project and getting this project set up in time for the arrival of the straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) in the city and continuing with the outreach and education that is vital to the growth and longevity of our conservation efforts across Malawi. Bishop Mackenzie International School Field Course By Becky Hazlewood, Research Assistant This month ABC welcomed 43 year 7 school students from Bishop Mackenzie International School (BMIS) who came to participate in a ‘Week Without Walls’ programme. In preparation for the week, Becky from ABC and Maddie from Carnivore Figure 1. ABC is excited to have back our Research Malawi carried out two research assistant from 2016, Kelly Rosier. interactive introductory sessions with the ABC welcomes back research students. These sessions focussed on bat assistant Kelly Rosier (Figure 1). Kelly first and carnivore ecology, dispelling myths, visited African Bat Conservation in 2016 to and discussions around bigger picture work on the Urban Research team for 6 environmental issues, both locally and months and we are delighted to welcome internationally, using some activities based her back for a further 3 months as research on the UN Sustainable Development Goals assistant for both our teams in Lilongwe City to help explain some of our pressing and Vwaza Marsh. conservation issues. Kelly was a part of the ABC team in Following the sessions the children Vwaza Marsh delivering the Biosphere arrived full of energy and enthusiasm for a Expedition programme to visiting citizen four day programme of fieldwork and scientists. This included introducing them to interactive sessions to teach them about Malawian bat ecology and conservation bats and carnivores. and training the participants in ABC’s The bat courses taught children about research methods. bat ecology, roosting behaviour and Following her time in the bush, Kelly foraging behaviour as well as going into returned to the city to assist the urban team detail about issues such as habitat loss, with their current research projects. Kelly is species conservation and human-wildlife looking forward to working with African bats conflict mitigation. Lots of games, once again and using her skills previously workshops and quizzes were used to make gained with us to continue bat the programme engaging and memorable conservation in Lilongwe. She is most for the students. excited to be helping with the Eidolon 3 ABC News The students also participated in to observe, along with a Nightjar and a Blue fieldwork activities, such as bat box checks, Waxbill bird. building surveys and roost visits. Each Overall, the students went away as evening ABC took groups to observe newly formed up and coming different types of capture and survey conservationists, filled with enthusiasm for methods. We carried out mist and harp bats and all the interesting things there are trapping at the Kumbali tobacco barn to learn about them. where we caught a number of species to show the children including Scotophilus Biosphere Expeditions join us at dingani, (Yellow bellied house bat), Chaerephon pumilius (Little free-tailed bat), Vwaza Marsh Mops niviventer (White-bellied free-tailed bat) and Hipposideros caffer (Sundevall’s Leaf nosed bat). The children found it fascinating to see the bats up close and were full of questions for the entire four days. The students also participated in fieldwork activities, such as bat box checks, building surveys and roost visits. Each evening ABC took groups to observe different types of capture and survey methods. We carried out mist and harp Figure 2. The front gate of Vwaza Marsh Wildlife trapping at the Kumbali tobacco barn Reserve Research Camp where we caught a number of species to show the children including Scotophilus By Andrew McVinnish and Kelly Rosier dingani, (Yellow bellied house bat), At the start of this month ABC began Chaerephon pumilius (Little free-tailed bat), its exciting new partnership with Biosphere Mops niviventer (White-bellied free-tailed Expeditions (BE) in conjunction with bat) and Hipposideros caffer (Sundevall’s Lilongwe Wildlife Trust (LWT). Biosphere Leaf nosed bat). The children found it fascinating to see the bats up close and expeditions allow people who may not were full of questions for the entire four have a background in wildlife research to days. assist in conservation projects across the world. Each expedition usually consists of 12 At the Kumbali dairy barn we carried people who work for 13 days helping the out a roost capture and showed the children how to conduct an emergence local scientist in the collection of data for survey. We caught over 20 Mops condylurus important conservation research. (Angolan free-tailed bats) on each night This is the first time BE has run an giving plenty of opportunity for everyone expedition in Malawi and ABC and LWT involved to see the bats and learn about have joined forces to host them at the their roosting behaviour. Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve Research On the final day we surveyed at base Camp (figure 2). Participants from BE assist camp and caught Epomorphous in all forms of research with both wahlbergi, a new bat family for the students organisations. Helping with ABC’s Biodiversity Monitoring Program 4 ABC News (BMP), undertaking bat, vegetation and in- pumilus in the harp sect surveys, as well as assisting LWT with traps. The Epomor- hippo counting and large mammal tran- phous labiatus and sects (LMT’s). There have been two groups Vesper species was of participants so far with the last group caught during a starting on the 5th of October. lakeside BMP survey Participants from BE are put through whilst the Chaero- rigorous training in all the survey techniques phon were caught they will use in the first few days of each ex- at the office we pedition. This includes lectures on study ani- have local to the mals and how data is collected on them. field site. Participants were given lectures on the Figure 4. Research Assis- We also visited identification of bats in Vwaza Marsh then tant Andrew with a Little were taught how to set up the mist nets epauletted fruit bat the office at dusk to and harp traps (Figure 3). (Epomophorus labiatus), complete an emer- demonstrating how to gence survey as we take measurements. noticed bats emerging during the BMP survey. Four par- ticipants and two staff members were lo- cated around the office blocks counting the number of bats that appeared for an hour after sunset. We estimated that over 130 bats from at least two species were roosting in the woodwork and roof space of the building with different emergence points around the site. Karen, our entomologist, has taken this Figure 3. Biosphere participants on there training days learning to set up a mist net opportunity to expand ABC’s work with in- sects. Along with setting out light traps as This has been very successful. BE par- part of a BMP survey, opportunistic insect ticipants so far have helped to conduct 9 traps have also been set up; these include bat surveys including BMP’s, opportunistic butterfly traps (Figure 5) and pitfall traps. and roost surveys. With the cold dry season coming to an end the number of bats be- ing caught is quickly increasing; the first group only caught eight over the 2 weeks they were here while the current group has caught 21. So far, with BE’s help, 29 bats have been caught from four species across three families (Figure 4). During the first expedition whilst on the bat capture surveys we caught Epomophorus labiatus and Vesper A spe- Figure 5. Staff member, Karen helping participants cies using the mist nets and 5 Chaerophon assemble a insect trap. 5 ABC News One exciting entomological find oc- treatments with and without organic fertiliz- curred one evening by absolute chance. ers. The main aims are: Ida, our expedition leader, noticed an inter- 1) to determine if guano is a suitable ferti- esting looking insect in camp and
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