Pemba Flying Fox and Ngezi Forest, How Pemba Island Brought a Giant Bat Back From Near Extinction
In 1989 you could count the Pemba flying fox on Pemba Island by the handful. The big fruit bat, with a wingspan of well over a metre and a fox-like face, lives nowhere else on earth, and by the early 1990s it was close to gone. People hunted it for food, and most of the island's…
