Ten years ago, Iroro Tanshi found something incredible in a cave in Nigeria: a colony of short-tailed roundleaf bats, a species that hadn’t been seen there in almost 50 years.
Her discovery helped kickstart a conservation movement in West Africa to protect rare species of bats from threats like poaching and wildfires. For that work, she’s one of the winners of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize.
Tanshi joined Here & Now‘s Scott Tong to talk about her work.
/
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2026 WBUR