🦇 Your donations enable us to continue discovering more about bats, take action to protect them, educate people about bats and their environment along with enabling more people to get involved in bat conservation. Every donation makes a difference: www.bats.org.uk/donate/pledge
🦇 Do you want to learn how to lead a bat walk? Our next training course is over two afternoons on the 7 and 14 April, online.
More information and how to book here: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...
#Bats 🦇 are an essential part of ecosystems across the world and play a vital role in different habitats, from agricultural landscapes to tropical forests. www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
🦇 Our advice pages are there to answer the most widely asked questions we get. From what to do if you find a bat to making your garden more bat friendly: www.bats.org.uk/advice
How the echolocation of bats has shaped their skulls @nhm-london.bsky.social www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Two new Favourable Conservation Status (FCS) definitions have been published by @naturalengland.bsky.social
Leisler’s Bat FCS - publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/...
Serotine FCS - publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/...
Thanks for sharing your photos @athena42.bsky.social. A great reminder of the rich diversity of the 1500 scientifically described species that are found across the world. www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
🦇 We are looking for volunteers for the Volunteer Bat Care Helpline, in which volunteers will answer calls from members of the public who have found grounded, injured or lost bats.
More information and how to apply here: www.bats.org.uk/support-bats...
Did you know we have a substack site, it hosts blogs from far and wide. From fantastic supporters who are fundraising for us through to passionate bat conservationists who want to share their story batconservationtrust.substack.com
🦇What should you do if you find a bat in need of help?
🏗 Are you working on a building and found bats?
🏠 Want to put up a bat box but don't know where to start?
🌸 How to make your garden more bat friendly?
Our advice pages cover all the above and more: buff.ly/74fXzfM
Postdoctoral Research Fellow @unisouthampton.bsky.social - Bat Ecosystem Services jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Have you listened to the latest BatChat #Podcast? Let us know what you think
It features Megan Price and Beth at Margam Castle in South Wales AND @brihughespoet.bsky.social from @royalholloway.bsky.social
Enjoy here batchat.buzzsprout.com/680561/episo...
Biodiversity underpins human well-being & a healthy planet. But nature is declining fast, putting global progress at risk.
Explore how the Global Biodiversity Framework - the world’s plan to reverse nature loss - helps advance the #GlobalGoals:
www.unep.org/interactives...
🦇 The Woodland Symposium will return on 25 March and will be held in person at the WWF Living Planet Centre in Woking as well as online via Zoom.
If you work with trees, are a landowner or an ecologist, here are four reasons why you should come along!
More info: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/con...
Another great batty event from local charity @barnescommon.bsky.social - this one aimed at 8-14 year olds:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eco-explor... Might be of interest to any young @batconservation.bsky.social members living locally.
🦇 Bats do not make nests, but choose various places throughout the year to roost. Bats roost in houses, both new and old but some species prefer hollow trees, or caves. In buildings they often shelter behind hanging tiles and boarding or in roof spaces.
Learn more here: buff.ly/tOo8EW3
🦇 Happy World Book Day!!! What is your favourite bat-related book?
We are very lucky for the support of some lovely book authors who donate part of their sales to our to help bats. Visit this page to discover some bat books: www.bats.org.uk/support-bats...
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Tonic immobility aka "playing dead" can happen when an exhausted bat feels threatened. It's one way to make a predator lose interest. This little guy doesn't yet know I'm his friend. #yougotafriendinme #batcare #lovebats
🦇 Are you ready to learn how to work alongside bats in buildings? Our 'Bats and roost risk management in construction' is for you!
Online over two afternoons on 23 & 30 March (1:30pm - 5pm). Booking deadline is 20 March: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...
🦇 Always great to see this in our inbox! 🥰
Thank you for listening to our podcast BatChat. A new episode is coming next Wednesday, 11 March.
If you have any feedback or suggestions please email us in comms@bats.org.uk .
One nomination a year from you will enter us into multiple draws from the Benefact Group. A £1000 donation would make a huge difference to our work. Nominate us today and encourage others to do so.
Our details are: THE BAT CONSERVATION TRUST - 1012361
ENTER HERE: movementforgood.com/draws/1000
Bats provide critical ecosystem services. #Bats 🦇 prevent crop damage and can help reduced insecticide use, three examples:
USA cotton farmers benefit by $3.7-53 billion per year
Italian apple orchards benefit by €551/ha
Rice farmers in Europe benefit by €56/ha
www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
Have you listened to the latest BatChat #Podcast? Let us know what you think
It features Megan Price and Beth at Margam Castle in South Wales AND @brihughespoet.bsky.social from @royalholloway.bsky.social
Enjoy here batchat.buzzsprout.com/680561/episo...
Thanks for sharing your photos @athena42.bsky.social. A great reminder of the rich diversity of the 1500 scientifically described species that are found across the world. www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
Has your MP joined the Parliamentary Call for a televised emergency briefing to the nation on the threats from climate change and nature loss?
www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...
Have they watched the expert briefings?
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
🦇 The Woodland Symposium will return on 25 March and will be held in person at the WWF Living Planet Centre in Woking as well as online via Zoom.
If you work with trees, are a landowner or an ecologist, here are four reasons why you should come along!
More info: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/con...
Bats provide critical ecosystem services. #Bats 🦇 prevent crop damage and can help reduced insecticide use, three examples:
USA cotton farmers benefit by $3.7-53 billion per year
Italian apple orchards benefit by €551/ha
Rice farmers in Europe benefit by €56/ha
www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
One nomination a year from you will enter us into multiple draws from the Benefact Group. A £1000 donation would make a huge difference to our work. Nominate us today and encourage others to do so.
Our details are: THE BAT CONSERVATION TRUST - 1012361
ENTER HERE: movementforgood.com/draws/1000
Got a bold idea to protect the planet?
The Young Champions of the Earth is the United Nations’ most prestigious award programme recognizing environmental action by young people.
Ready to take your idea to the global stage? Apply before 31 March.
🔗 www.unep.org/youngchampio...
A bat flying through the air
From caves to crops: Dr Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez is leading new research funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk to explore the hidden value of bat guano and how protecting bats also matters for food security.
Read more in the Leverhulme Trust newsletter: www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...
