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BwB is dedicated to conserving bats, biodiversity and healthy ecosystems within southern Africa’s changing landscape. Conservation | Applied Research | Capacity Strengthening | Engagement 🦇 🦇 🦇
This 💫 #ThrowbackThursday we are reflecting on it being a year since our last Women In Bat Science indaba! It was a hugely inspiring webinar with the Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks leaders.
It is available to watch on our YouTube channel below:
▶️ youtu.be/9jOrONA8hJk?si=q-AwJ4_q5y5QOBki
🔜 Our first Winged Wednesday Webinar of 2026 is with Santiago Perea, a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 🇺🇸
🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html
🌍 ⏰ Please note that the webinar is fixed at 3pm southern African standard time - friendly reminder to adjust for your local timezone
📍 Are you in #Lusaka?
🦜 Interested in urban wildlife?
The Habitat Connections project, a collaboration between Bats without Borders and BirdWatch Zambia, is hosting a FREE bird walk this Friday 6am - 11am at Bonanza Golf Course ⛳
#Zambia #birds #birdwalk #livingthegreen #wildlifeonthecourse
Abigail Karimanzira, one of our 2023 bat group trainees, presented at the Women Conserving Southern Africa congress in Kasane, Botswana yesterday. Her talk was on promoting citizen science in bat conservation in Zimbabwe 🦇
#WCSA2026 #womeninconservation #womeninleadership #womeninwildlife
Need some inspiration for a batty Valentine's message this year? 💌
Well, look no further... 🦇 ❤️
💌 'We're bat-ter together'
🦇 'My heart bats for you'
💌 'Guano be my Valentine?'
🦇 'Wanna hang?'
💌 'I'm batty for you'
🦇 'Let's hang out forever'
📸 Andy Price
#valentine #valentinesday2026 #lovebats
🔜 ⏳ Just a few weeks now until our 2026 Winged Wednesday Webinars kick off 👏
✏️ Please note the slight schedule change: Santiago Perea is now speaking on 25 March 2026.
Webinars are 1hr long and always at 3pm southern African time
To sign up for free, visit: www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars
That feeling when you realise it’s Friday! 🦇💨
Flying into the weekend like.. 🦟🪰🥭🍌
Did you know some bats can eat thousands of insects in a single night? Talk about a midnight snack! 🤯
Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to find our own snacks. 😋
📸 Daniel Whitby
#FridayFeeling #bats #lovebats
It is almost February and love is in the air!
Our #Lovebats range on Teemill is the perfect Valentine's gift for the bat-lover in your life 🦇 ❤️
Support Bats without Borders while you shop the collection:
bats-without-borders.teemill.com/collection/v...
#valentinesday2026 #sustainable #ethical
Would you like to stay up-to-date with BwB?
Receive BwB news about our work in southern Africa instantly via our announcements-only WhatsApp group 🦇
Scan the QR code or click the link below to join:
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This #ChampionTuesday, we are celebrating the wonderful trainers who have just completed their online Train the Trainer course on our environmental education programme, Classrooms without Walls 👏 🦇
🔗 If you would like to join the next batch of training, sign up here: forms.office.com/e/HMHp3wzV8C
Today is #WorldEnvironmentalEducationDay 🌍 and we are celebrating 'the power of youth in co-creating education'.
2026 will see the launch of our co-design book about the migration of the straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) with Ndola Primary School in Zambia! 📖 🦇
Watch this space 👀
THANK YOU wonderful supporters and friends! 🙏 🦇
You’ve just raised another £25 in FREE donations for Bats without Borders when shopping online by using Give as you Live!
If you haven’t signed up yet, get started today:
www.giveasyoulive.com/join/bwb?utm...
📆 We are delighted to announce our first 2026 webinar dates!
Please note the webinars are 1 hr long and always at 3pm southern African time.
To sign up for free, visit: www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars
#WingedWednesday #webinar #batchat #lovebats #savebats #batconservation #bats
Did you know, when you sign up to Give as you Live the retailers you shop with will make a donation to us for every purchase you make?
It's completely free, and the funds help us to keep protecting bats in southern Africa.
Sign up for us today!
www.giveasyoulive.com/charity/bwb
We have reached our target! 👏 🎉
Thank you so much to our supporters and friends 🦇
Your support will help deliver our Classrooms without
Walls environmental education programme to 500+
young people in southern Africa 🌍 💚
We are 80% of the way there!
Our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge closes tomorrow at 12noon (Tues 9 Dec). Please donate if you can to help us reach our £5,000 target 🙏
Donations are going to BwB's environmental education programme in southern Africa.
🔗 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
It is day 4 of our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge!
We are getting closer to our £5,000 target!
Thank you again for your amazing support so far 🙏
🔗 lnkd.in/dCmGkSF5
#TheBigGive #ChristmasChallenge #doublethedifference #batswithoutborders #batconservation #bats #wildlife
Our #ChristmasChallenge continues!
For one week only (Dec 2 -9) @biggive.bsky.social is doubling donations made to BwB! 🦇
🔗 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Your support will help deliver our environmental education programme, Classrooms without Walls, to 500+ young people in southern Africa 🙏
Our #ChristmasChallenge is now live 💥
DOUBLE THE DIFFERENCE NOW!
From today #GivingTuesday, for one week only (Dec 2 - 9), Big Give will double donations made to our fundraising campaign. We're raising funds for our Classrooms without Walls programme 🦇
🔗 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025 is nearly here!
Money raised will go to our environmental education programme in southern Africa 🦇
Donations will be matched for 7 days from 2 December.
Use this link to donate from 12pm Tuesday:
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... 🌟
#ChristmasChallenge
Taonga holding Habitat Connections flyers
Child colouring in a bat
Last weekend, Taonga, our Project Officer, attended the Zambian Art and Design Show at Ciela Resort and Spa, Bonanza Estate in Lusaka.
She exhibited alongside our partners, BirdWatch Zambia, to promote our Habitat Connections project 🦇 🦜 🐝
#Habitatconnections #batconservation #Zambia #Lusaka
🌟 1 week to go! 🌟
Join us for our last #WingedWednesday #webinar of the year with Pipat Soisook!
📅 Wednesday 26th November
⏰ 3pm southern Africa | 1pm UK | 8am EDT
🌍⏰ Please note the time change for those in regions using DST.
🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html
📸 Pipat Soisook
Let's be honest about our date plans this #SillySaturday.. Who is hoping for the other person to flake first?!
Why not turn to the animal kingdom for some excuses instead...
Cartoon by Rohan Chakravarty, Green Humour
#introvertlife #JOMO #relatable #needanexcuse #stayingin #Baturday
🌟 2 weeks to go! 🌟
#WingedWednesday #webinar with Pipat Soisook:
'Saving the Endemic Hipposideros pendlebury'
📅 Wednesday 26th November
⏰ 3pm southern Africa | 1pm UK | 8am EDT
🌍⏰ Please note time change for those in regions using DST
🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html
📸 Pipat Soisook
Grant deadline - get in quick!
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You don’t need a lab coat to be a scientist! 🦇
This #WorldScienceDay, help us monitor fruit bats across southern #Africa.
Join our community science project today—use the #COREO app to record roosts— and make a real difference! 🌍
#CommunityScience #BatScience #AfricanBats #Conservation
COMING SOON... our November #wingedwednesday #webinar 🦇
🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html
⏰ *Please note* for those in regions with clock changes: the webinar remains at 3pm southern African time but will vary for others - for example, the UK is now 1pm
#bats #savebats #thailand
Bats are not just for Halloween but it is a great time of
year to show support!
This Halloween, we challenge you to a Bat Match...
Donate what you spend on sweets and treats this year to Bats without Borders to help bat conservation in southern Africa:
donate.giveasyoulive.com/fundraising/...
