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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
29th November 2023
Learn about BCT’s cutting-edge audio-identification work in this interview with our Research Manager, Dr Lia Gilmour.
![BCT win AWS UK Imagine Grant](https://cdn.bats.org.uk/uploads/news/_listingImage/BatDetect2-demo-Edit-for-AWS-Imagine-Grant-story.jpg?v=1721129225)
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.