AAAS Kavli Award for ‚Killer in the Caves‘

Our science thriller “Killer in the Caves” has won this year’s AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.

The prize is awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest scientific society. It honours journalists who make science and scientific work accessible to a large audience.

“Killer in the Caves” is a science film about North America’s the imminent disappearance of many North American bat species. The film accompanies researchers and wildlife managers in their desperate struggle to prevent this disaster –  in bat cavities, laboratories and cooling chambers in the USA and Canada.