Batty Laureate Winners 2023-24

Batty Laureate Winners 2023-24

7th March 2024

Congratulations to our winners Sophie Harrison and Sarah Mills

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Big Green Hike 2024

Big Green Hike 2024

21st February 2024

Join hundreds of others and take a Big Green Hike for nature Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 April 2024.

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Nature is essential to all people’s future

9th February 2024

Our vision for the future is of a world rich in wildlife where people and bats thrive together. We want everyone, everywhere to have opportunities to connect with bats and nature and get involved with conservation.

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Bats, sound and science: Lia Gilmour interview part 2

Bats, sound and science: Lia Gilmour interview part 2

7th February 2024

In this interview, BCT’s Research Manager Dr Lia Gilmour explains the links between the science of sound and bat conservation, how she became a bat scientist and what it's like working at BCT.

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Newport company fined for demolition of bat roost

Newport company fined for demolition of bat roost

23rd January 2024

A company in Newport have been fined £2605 for illegally destroying a building where common pipistrelles were roosting.

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Bats declined as Britain felled trees for colonial shipbuilding

Bats declined as Britain felled trees for colonial shipbuilding

14th December 2023

Bat numbers declined as Britain’s trees were felled for shipbuilding in the early colonial period, new research shows.

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AI and audio-identification of bats: Lia Gilmour interview part 1

AI and audio-identification of bats: Lia Gilmour interview part 1

29th November 2023

Learn about BCT’s cutting-edge audio-identification work in this interview with our Research Manager, Dr Lia Gilmour.

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BCT win AWS UK Imagine Grant

BCT win AWS UK Imagine Grant

28th November 2023

BCT wins AWS UK Imagine Grant for our acoustic survey tool, BCT’s SCS, which will address urgent need to upscale bat surveying.

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