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• Statement by Bat Conservation Africa
• Joint statement of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and the Norwegian Zoological Society (NZF) (Norwegian)
• Joint position of German conservation NGOs: the long German version; the short German version; translation to English 
• Statement of SECEMU (Spanish Association on Conservation and Study of Bats
• Statement of the Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation: Wuhan Coronavirus Leads to More Premature Scapegoating of Bats
• Statement of the Bat Conservation Trust 
• Press-release of the Société Française pour l’Etude et la Protection des Mammifères (French)
• Press-release of the Italian Institute for Environmental Research and Protection (Italian)
• Statement of the Bundesverband für Fledermauskunde Deutschland e.V. (German)
• Statement of the Stiftung Fledermausschutz, Switzerland (German)
• Statement of the Dutch Mammal Society (Zoogdiervereniging) on bats and the 2019-Coronavirus outbreak (Dutch)
• FAQ on Bats and coronaviruses developed by the Bat Conservation International
• Science-based facts and knowledge about wild animals, zoos and SARS-COV-2 virus 
• IUCN SSC Bat Specialist Group (BSG) Recommended Strategy for Researchers to Reduce the Risk of Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from Humans to Bats