THE SECRETS OF SAMAL ISLAND│Monfort Bat Sanctuary

Monfort Bat Sanctuary

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" Most of the cave’s limestone walls are densely studded with fruit bats, an average of 60 of them per square foot (645/square meter). Tens of thousands roost in remarkably exposed locations, giving visitors an up-close look from outside the cave. An estimated 1.8 million bats, the largest known population of Geoffroy’s rousette fruit bats in the world, are overloading Monfort Bat Cave on the Philippines’ Samal Island. Yet bat populations have plummeted by more than 99 percent at other nearby caves. Such is the power of uncompromising protection.

The Inigo-Monfort family has owned and safeguarded this cave, which also sheltered humans against World War II bombing raids, since the 1900s. Norma Monfort is the current owner/trustee of the cave, the bats and the surrounding 57 acres (23 hectares). “Since the time of my ancestors, our family has left undisturbed the thousands and thousands of Rousettus amplexicaudatus in the cave in our backyard,” she says. She enclosed the property and posted a guard around the clock to discourage bat hunters and other uninvited visitors. Though occasional guests could marvel at the huge clusters of bats and the spectacular emergences, she allowed almost no one except conservation scientists to enter the cave. " - batcon.org/article/a-treasure-trove-of-fruit-bats/