Adriana Bravo: Project Update: March 2008

This is Adriana Bravo, a Rufford grantee working with bats and mineral licks or collpas in the Peruvian Amazon.
I am writing to let you know that things are doing great down here in Los Amigos Biological Station in Madre de Dios, Peru.

This first month of work, we have been camping and traveling all over the concession (up stream) and we finally finished our first round of bat captures.

We, my two volunteers and a local assistant, have visited the three sites where we captured bats and collected water samples. Everything was excellent. We captured many bats at the collpas, or mineral licks, and less in the forest and gaps as expected.

Yesterday we participated in the environmental program of the station and we talked to the children about bats and their role as pollinators. It was awesome.