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Laboratory: This is now up and running, even though its efficiency is not as good as we originally hoped.
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However, it keeps the humidity at about 50-60%, and all the air that enters the building is filtered with a high efficiency filter, which removes spores and bacteria. The interior of the laboratory is professionally fitted out, but is not equipped with running water (that's on the outside). It allows electronics, microscopy and general laboratory operations, which do not require excessive volumes of water, or the release of chemical fumes (e.g. a dry-lab).
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| Bat Project: The new laboratory gives us the capability of pursuing the long delayed flying fox non-lethal deterrent projects. The radar system and the non-lethal "Fyre Fox Project" both of which are basically technology being applied to a conservation biology problem, which need sophisticated equipment that requires controlled atmosphere conditions.
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| Many thanks to our talented volunteer, Nicky Hartley (UK) for her outstanding work renovating our Bat House; and for her shiatsu massages!
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| Intern Martin Kintrup from the University of Münster (Germany) studied and compared the sizes of emerging and ovipositing parasitic fig wasps from the fig Ficus congesta. Somewhat surprisingly, the emerging wasps were on average smaller than those ovipositing, suggesting that many small wasps fell by the wayside on the way to pollinate the next figs.
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| Ornithologist, Dr. Konrad Halupka from the University of Wroclaw, Poland, studied the dispersion of seeds of the Ficus septica.
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