My work with global bat biodoversity conservation has been estensive and began at Bat Conservation International, in developing a mapping project in collaboration with Dr Kate Jones and Wes Sechrest. with funding from Conservation International, to gather together bat experts and map endangered species distribuiotn aswell as  bat phylogenetic distribution. This work fed into a larger mammal mapping exercise published in PNAS.

​

For Bat Conservation Inyternational I led the Global Grasssroots and Scholarships Funds, and supported a staff team working on bat houses, bats in caves, bats in forests and bats in the Borderlands. I delivered skills training workshops, including hands on mist netting, Master Texas Naturalists and teacher training.

​

Later on working for Lubee Bat Conservancy, I was able to select projects for seed funding and work with field teams to develop further funding opportunities to grow global conservation programmes.

 

In particular,  I spent time visiting projecst and working with collegues internatuinally to proactively developing collrative funding opportinities to develop projects over time. I spent time in Madagascar supporting projecst on bats and baobab trees  and local livelihoods.

​

​