Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation

Dr. MERLIN TUTTLE is an ecologist, wildlife photographer, and conservationist who has studied bats worldwide for more than fifty years. He founded Bat Conservation International in 1982. His work has been featured in Science, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and National Geographic.

Tuttle now leads another non-profit group, Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation (MTBC), founded in 2014, which uses science, field knowledge and photography to help save millions of bats each year. He has also published a book of his own personal, sometimes hair-raising bat adventures around the world, illustrated with his own gorgeously shot bat photos—The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World’s Most Misunderstood Mammals (2015, available on Amazon).

Merlin Tuttle's bat photographs and conservation experience provide a firm foundation for bat conservation efforts worldwide.

Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation: Our mission is to promote understanding of the essential contributions of bats to human economies and healthy ecosystems.