The Christmas Island Pipistrelle and Extinction in Australia
by
John Woinarski
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
On the evening of 26 August 2009, the last known pipistrelle emerges from its day-time shelter on Christmas Island. Scientists, desperate about its conservation, set up a maze of netting to try to catch it. It is a forlorn and futile exercise – even if captured, there is little future in just one...