South Asian Chiroptera CAMP report 2002 - Zoo Outreach ...

Our host G. Marimuthu of the School of Animal Behaviour and Physiology, Madurai Kamaraj University, andhis team deserve much credit for hosting the workshop and putting up with the many unusual requests requiredto keep more than 40 bat biologists happy enough to stick around for a full five days.We should also thank our guests from far away, Tony Hutson, Co-chair, IUCN SSC Chiroptera SpecialistGroup, Paul Bates and Dr. Sharoukh Mistry, Indian field biologist from USA, for coming all the way tocontribute to the workshop. Many participants endured travel hardships (such as the team from Ahmednagarwho drove 1000 kilometers in a jeep to attend the workshop) and all gave one full week out of their lives tomake the workshop work.Now the Report is out, all of us must utilize it to the maximum to ensure the survival of all species ofChiroptera of South Asia.Sally Walker and Sanjay Molur, Facilitators and OrganizersConservation Assessment and Management Plan Workshop for South Asian ChiropteraviiiSouth Asian Chiroptera C.A.M.P. Report, 2002