Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Prince Albert II of Monaco Launches World’s First Bat Watching System in Borneo


From Borneo Blog:

Prince Albert II of Monaco, who is on a three-day visit to Sarawak, the other Malaysian state on Borneo Island, today launched the world’s first digital remote-controlled bats monitoring system at Deer Cave, one of the many caves within the Mulu national park.

The RM800,000 (US$254,000) system, also known as the Mulu BatCam, utilises five remote controlled television cameras and infra-red lighting inside the cave.

The system will be able to show spectacular details of the bat colonies inside, said the park’s manager, Brian Clark said in a report by Bernama, the Malaysian national news agency.

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