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Bat calls from the Amazon plus how Indonesia's rainforests became palm plantations

Published: Oct. 18, 2017, 5:48 p.m.

Mongabay editor Phil Jacobson joins the Newscast to discuss a new investigative reporting project\xa0in collaboration with The Gecko Project called \u201cIndonesia For Sale\u201d\xa0about the\xa0land deals \u2014 and the powerful politicians and businessmen behind them \u2014 that have converted vast areas of Indonesian rainforest to industrial palm oil plantations for personal profit.\xa0

Then we speak with Adri\xe0 L\xf3pez-Baucells, whose acoustic studies of bats in the central Amazon reveal the effects of Amazon forest fragmentation on bat foraging behavior. In this Field Notes segment, L\xf3pez-Baucells plays some of the recordings he captured and also explains how this audio led to some species being found in the central Amazon for the first time.

Plus we round up the past two weeks' top news.

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