#Conservation #scicomm, passionate about #nzbats. Opinions my own. Repost/follows not endorsements. ❤️ #batspotting 🦇 #teampekapeka 🌳 #nzdotterel 🐥 #pestfreeAKL 🐀
Ben Paris
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Back to the Pekapeka Hui HQ for a second day of connections and learning…
ecocentricity.substack.com/p/gone-batty 🦇
“It’s a true community and council collaboration, connecting local people with pekapeka,” Paris confirms. “It’s really about building people power on the ground – supporting locals to lead conservation efforts in their own backyards.”
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#nzbats #pekapeka 🦇
“I think where Franklin’s different is they’re really embracing getting people trained,” O’Donnell said 🦇 news.mongabay.com/2026/05/weve...
Watch: www.threenow.co.nz/shows/wild-h...
Great to see Finding Franklin Bats featured on Auckland Zoo’s Wild Heroes 🦇
Proud to be part of a community working alongside mana whenua, researchers, landowners and organisations to protect our precious pekapeka. Collaboration is key 💚
#Pekapeka #NZbats #Community #Conservation #PestFreeAKL
🦇 New research sheds light on how artificial lighting impacts long-tailed bat activity. From the teams at Waikato Uni, DOC, Auckland Uni, and Bioeconomy Science Institute—helping us better protect pekapeka as our nights get brighter.
🔦➡️🦇 #Pekapeka #NZBats link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Excited to share our recent paper on immune function during torpor in the Australian eastern bent-winged bat 🦇
White blood cell counts are suppressed during torpor, but can largely be restored within just 30 minutes after arousal!
Truly amazing animals.
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Colossal Biosciences announced they've developed an artificial egg to hatch bird embryos; it's part of their "resurrection" plan for the moa and dodo - here's @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social's analysis of what it could mean for saving living species theconversation.com/de-extinctio...
I can thoroughly recommend this @storycollider.bsky.social workshop - I laughed and cried as I prepared to tell my story (about IVF) and my heart was pounding as I walked up on the stage, but it was one of my best #scicomm experiences
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The Franklin Local Board is backing environmental projects 🐦 🦇 🐟
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#nzbats #pestcontrol #community #conservation #pestfreeAKL #franklin
Billy Mclean knew nothing about bats. As a lifelong Kiwi, there was no reason for him to. Unlike in neighboring Australia and other parts of Oceania whose renowned flying foxes grow meter-long wingspa...
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Ben Paris (aka Batman) is no superhero. While he’s spearheaded the Finding Franklin Bats initiative, he can’t ensure the survival of pekapeka on his own. After a busy “batting season” during summer, t...
The vets treat an albatross that had been kept in someone's home for a week, and the Zoo team is in rural Auckland, supporting efforts to save an endemic bat species.
Colossal Biosciences’ artificial egg technology would deliver a useful tool for the conservation of threatened birds, but only if it’s made publicly available.
📖 Did you know that SCANZ has hosted a Story Collider event before, way back in 2019? It was awesome, and now you have the chance to upskill and learn from the best!
The Story Collider Workshop brou...
Summary: Torpor bouts and season alter immune cell dynamics and innate humoral antibacterial activity in a bat species hibernating in mild winter climates, offering new insights into energy–immunity t...
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The Franklin Local Board appears to be on the front foot when it comes to backing environmental projects. Almost $900,000 has been invested this financial year in a range of initiatives aimed at prote...
