LONDON, Feb 10 (Hina) - Croatian scientist Daniela Hamidovic has been chosen the second best candidate and given an award in a competition on the preservation of nature, organised by the British Royal Geographical Society, spokeswoman
Jane Bevan said on Wednesday. Daniela Hamidovic was on Tuesday evening presented with a 20,000- pound-worth 'Rufford Award' for the study and preservation of the long-legged bat (Myotis capaccinii), an endangered species, which lives exclusively in the rocky areas of north-west Africa, south Europe and south-west Asia.
LONDON, Feb 10 (Hina) - Croatian scientist Daniela Hamidovic has
been chosen the second best candidate and given an award in a
competition on the preservation of nature, organised by the British
Royal Geographical Society, spokeswoman Jane Bevan said on
Wednesday.
Daniela Hamidovic was on Tuesday evening presented with a 20,000-
pound-worth 'Rufford Award' for the study and preservation of the
long-legged bat (Myotis capaccinii), an endangered species, which
lives exclusively in the rocky areas of north-west Africa, south
Europe and south-west Asia. #L#
Hamidovic and another 17 scientists have studied the microclimatic
conditions, habitats and hunting traits of the long-legged bat at
the location of Miljacka Spilja in the Croatian national park Krka,
the largest habitat of the long-legged bat in Europe.
A special trait of the long-legged bat, which distinguishes it from
almost all other kinds of bats, is that this animal cannot get used
to living in a human environment.
The first prize, "The Whitley Award", named after the British
philanthropist Edward Whitley, worth 50,000 pounds, went to Indian
botanist Gargi Banerji for the protection of 1,000 medicinal plants
in the Himalayas.
(hina) rml