A review of the global conservation status of bats

makers as well as organisations and individuals who are promoting bat conservation issues. The underlying lights the priority areas where action is needed immediately at a global, regional or national level. It highlights threat to bats is pressure on resources from increasing human populations that leads to the loss or modification in particular the global importance of islands and caves for bats. of foraging habitats and roosts. Bats frequently have a negative public image that influences the response to the problems of rabies and vampire bats in Latin America Keywords Action Plan, bats, caves, Chiroptera, conservation priorities, islands. and conflicts between bats and commercial fruit growers in other areas of the world. In some areas bats are