'Green Nobel' winner Iroro Tanshi found love and her life's work saving bats in West Africa

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Ten years ago, Tanshi found something incredible in a cave in Nigeria: a colony of short-tailed roundleaf bats, a species that hadn’t been seen there in almost 50 years.

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