Environmental education positively impacts the perceptions of learners towards bats in schools in a low socio-economic area in South Africa

• Veli Monday Mdluli ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Velimmdluli@gmail.com

  Affiliation Afromontane Research Unit, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5830-0116

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• Alexandra Howard,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Afromontane Research Unit, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa

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• Emile Bredenhand,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Afromontane Research Unit, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa

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• Ara Monadjem,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Eswatini, Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Bekithemba Dube,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Education, University of the Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa

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• Adrinajoro Rakotoarivelo,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Afromontane Research Unit, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa

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• Peter John Taylor

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Afromontane Research Unit, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9048-7366

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