BCT and Bats in the News
13 August 2009
Blind to plight of bats
A major project is underway to preserve one of Britain's most secretive and endangered creatures.
10 August 2009
Bid to get bats and cockney sparrows back to East London
A refuge for wildlife has been set up to save London’s endangered wildlife including the ‘cockney’ sparrow in the concrete housing estates of the East End.
9 August 2009
Bat Conservation Trust need nature lovers' help
Nature lovers are being asked to keep an eye on the sky in an effort to conserve the region’s bat population.
7 August 2009
Tenants' misery over homes invaded by bats
A block of flats in Cameron Drive, Alexandria, is home to almost 500 bats. Top floor residents are in a right flap because the creatures have managed to fly into their homes.
6 August 2009
Britain falling silent
This summer the Bat Conservation Trust wants all sightings to be sent in for its Big Bat Map. Don’t worry about identifying species, which often requires a Dr Who-style call detector.
5 August 2009
Going batty in Southwark
Animal lovers in Southwark celebrated this week after news that a rare bat species had been recorded in the borough.
5 August 2009
Bat Conservation Trust wants details of your bat sightings
The Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) is urging people to become a bat detective this summer. The Big Bat Map has been launched by the Count Bat Project, part of BCT, to provide an interactive way for people to get help with bat conservation on a local level; looking to the skies on an evening to detect bats.
29 July 2009
Property: How a bat can drive you to despair
It was when a conservationist found a teaspoon of bat dung in the barn that the nightmare began. The nice woman in a tweed skirt came to our back door with a teaspoon, and for the next three months it drove us to the edge of despair. We were selling our house, and early in the year, a couple had fallen in love with it and made an offer that we accepted.
28 July 2009
Julia Hanmer announced as BCT Chief Executive
Julia Hanmer will be chief executive of the Bat Conservation Trust from 1 September. She was previously deputy chief executive.
20 July 2009
Bat Conservation Trust names new Chief Executive
The Bat Conservation Trust's (BCT) newly-appointed chief executive is looking forward to resuming her role in leading the organisation and its activities to safeguard the future of these important creatures.
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17 July 2009
Radar could prevent bats being killed on wind turbines
Conservationists are calling for wind farms to be fitted with radar after scientists found the technology can prevent endangered bats being killed on the turbines.
7 July 2009
Bat bite victim has rabies injection
Bitten by an injured bat, Scott Van Slyck from Sawtry, had to have an emergency rabies injection.
6 July 2009
The Numbers
Bat Conservation Trust - The Numbers.
1 July 2009
Rare bat makes natural history at Wragby
A rare bat is spreading its wings by moving into the heart of Lincolnshire – and it could be here for the long-term.
25 June 2009
Scientists discover new tiny bat species in Comoros
Scientists have discovered a small new bat species weighing just 5 grams on the Comoros island archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
5 June 2009
Do One Thing for Wildlife
Farmers already make a significant contribution to the UK’s wildlife conservation but a special push for 2009 could see all the difference” was the message at the launch of the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Groups (FWAG) 40th anniversary campaign “Do One Thing for Wildlife!”
2 June 2009
Batman decides to move to Cornwall
The north-east’s very own Batman is spreading his wings after 36 years at Aberdeen University. Paul Racey, 65, has stepped down as regius professor of natural history and is moving to Cornwall to continue his work on the ecology and conservation of bats.
21 May 2009
Cute but contagious
Swine flu may get the headlines; but white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that shows as a powdery pattern on the face, wings and legs of bats, is moving far more swiftly across America.
16 May 2009
Historic Scotland gives bats helping hand
A group more used to protecting Scotland’s historic environment is giving nature a helping hand in the north-east.
8 May 2009
How to boost biodiversity on housing estates and in communities
Members of the UK Green Building Council’s biodiversity task group offer 10 tips.
1 May 2009
The Magic of May
You don’t have to leave the city to see our wildlife in spring. London’s parks at dusk, for example, are a brilliant place for bats: head to the water at Regent’s Park or Battersea Park and you can see several species of bat out hunting, ducking and weaving inches from your head.
1 May 2008
Scots bat survey to start in Fair City
One of the biggest bat surveys made in Scotland is to begin in Perth this summer. Enthusiasts are being sought to help record the species of bats in Perth, and where they live in the city.
28 December 2008
Third of Britain's mammals 'at risk'
Climate change and habitat loss have led to a dramatic increase in the number of mammals whose future survival is a cause for concern among conservationists. The Bechstein's bat, one of the country's rarest mammals, has shown a marked decline while the number of soprano pipistrelle bats has fallen by 46% in six years.
27 December 2008
British 2008 Wildlife Review
For the second year in a row British wildlife, including Marsh Fritillary butterflies, puffins and lesser horseshoe bats, has suffered at the hands of the weather, according to experts at the National Trust.
22 December 2008
Plea for help spotting bat killer
Bat groups and cavers across the UK have been asked to report suspected cases of an illness that has killed bats in the US. White nose syndrome makes it appear as if the animals' noses have been dipped in powdered sugar.
11 December 2008
Large bat on isle poses riddle
A birdwatcher is believed to have made the first recorded sighting of a species of bat not previously seen on the Western Isles. The Bat Conservation Trust hopes to confirm it was a noctule from images captured by Steve Duffield.
4 December 2008
Earthwatch debate highlights invaluable species
Dr Kate Jones, vice-chairman of The Bat Conservation Trust, invited us to imagine a world without her beloved bats. She took us away from the imagery of Dracula and Hallowe’en to the intricacies of their extraordinary design, their role as pollinators and dispersers of plants, and importance as biodiversity indicators.
4 December 2008
Rock painting reveals unknown bat
An ancient aboriginal cave painting in northern Australia depicts a previously unknown species of large bat, according to researchers. The rock art could date to the height of the last Ice Age -- about 20-25,000 years ago.
Nature's Top 40
BCT President Chris Packham presents the UK's top wildlife spectacles in Nature's Top 40. Swarming bats (around the 1 min 50 sec mark) feature at number 28!
Watch programme... (link to BBC iPlayer)
30 October 2008
The real batman!
There's not a Batmobile in sight and he certainly doesn't wear a cape but batman Phil Briggs is definitely the real thing. Armed with his trusty torch and a hi-tech detector, Phil keeps a watchful eye over British bats in his role with the Bat Conservation Trust (BCT).
15 October 2008
Moon sheds light on parliament's nocturnal residents
Rosie the noctule bat brought a little light relief to parliament last night, as a government minister, several peers and a group of MPs peered into her cosy nesting box.
10 September 2008
Message control
Jaime Eastham is the communications and membership manager of the Bat Conservation Trust - one of only two in her department. "With a lot of charity PR, the cause is already sold and it's a matter of getting a bigger piece of the pie," she says. "I like it that this is a more unusual area. Bats are a misunderstood animal and you have to really change people's minds."
9 September 2008
Mysteries of 'bat discos' probed
Bat watchers are preparing for a seasonal phenomenon which sees large numbers of the mammals swarm at the entrances to caves and tunnels.
26 August 2008
Wind farms put pressure on bats
Bats are at risk from wind turbines, researchers have found, because the rotating blades produce a change in air pressure that can kill the mammals.
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