Join the Nightlife: 2024 Recap
October 31, 2024
Thanks to all the Join the Nightlife: Bats and Agriculture attendees who joined us out in the field this year! Guests got hands-on experience with
It rained hard, as we followed the guano miner’s daughter, Chanraem, through a maze of brilliant green rice paddies, ending at an unexpectedly lovely, teak house, landscaped with fruit trees and flowers. We waited on the porch till Siri came to meet us.
At 96 years of age, Siri Tanomsri found it difficult to remember details of his interview with Merlin at Rakang Cave 23 years earlier, but his 81-year-old wife distinctly recalled Merlin taking her picture at the cave entrance. That photo ran in BCI’s Fall 1990 issue of Bats, “Return to Thailand.”
We recorded the hour-long interview and left noting the exceptional health of these people as substantiation of the head monk’s comment at Khao Chong Pran Cave in response to Merlin’s inquiry regarding the often exaggerated claims that bats are dangerous sources of disease.
I know many old and healthy guano miners.”
We jumped in the Batmobile for the two-hour drive to Bangkok. At our hotel restaurant, we exchanged memories and mementoes of the two-week trip with our fantastic guides and new friends, the BatThai team. Daniel would be with us for the next week, and then we were on our own for the fourth and final week in Thailand.
Daniel, Merlin and I caught an early morning flight to Narathiwat, in the Deep South of Thailand for a week at the research station in Hala Bala National Park on the border with Malaysia.
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Thanks to all the Join the Nightlife: Bats and Agriculture attendees who joined us out in the field this year! Guests got hands-on experience with
Supporter and friend of MTBC, Australian conservation and animal welfare photojournalist Doug Gimesy, had his images recognized in two categories at the recent Siena International
Fieldwork requires a lot of equipment, but photography requires even more! During our June 2024 photography workshop, we transported over 100 lbs. of equipment —
Within the dim limestone passageways of Caverna Santa Catalina, the air came alive with bats. I stood in awed silence, taking in the rush of
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Michael Lazari Karapetian has over twenty years of investment management experience. He has a degree in business management, is a certified NBA agent, and gained early experience as a money manager for the Bank of America where he established model portfolios for high-net-worth clients. In 2003 he founded Lazari Capital Management, Inc. and Lazari Asset Management, Inc. He is President and CIO of both and manages over a half a billion in assets. In his personal time he champions philanthropic causes. He serves on the board of Moravian College and has a strong affinity for wildlife, both funding and volunteering on behalf of endangered species.