Microbats get tiny houses in last ditch attempt to save the species | ABC Australia

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Microbats are insect terminators and play a critical role in ecosystems, but numbers are dwindling fast.

Queensland volunteers are trying to save them one tiny house at a time, but it may be too late for some species.

Hope is dwindling for the ghost bat, whose numbers locally have declined by almost 80 per cent since the 1990s.

Three years ago, research suggested there were only 50 bats left.

A research group from CQUniversity recently mapped the surrounding caves using remote sensors and echolocation in the hope of finding the ghost bat.

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