Bat Conservation Trust

#bats🦇 #Valentines ❤️ #lovebats

🦇 Joining the Bat Conservation Trust is the ideal way to show your support for bats. By becoming a member, you will be directly helping to protect bats and their habitats.

Join today from only £3.25/month: www.bats.org.uk/membership/s... or you could join for life, with a one-off donation.

🦇Are you ready to learn how to work alongside bats in buildings? Our 'Bats and roost risk management in construction' course is for you!
- Online over two afternoons on 16 & 23 February (1:30pm - 5pm).
- Booking deadline: 15 February

More info and to book here: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...

Brown long-eared bat flying over a pond catching insects. The pond looks like its teeming with life and is full of plants floating on the surface and emerging from it

"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living." - Sir David Attenborough #bats🦇

Love Fest - A celebration of inspiring love of nature www.natureforall.global/love-fest

A chance to take part in a global celebration of nature - #NatureForAll Love Fest natureforall.global/love-fest/

🦇 Nearly 1,000 people enjoyed our podcast #BatChat last week! Did you?

You can find it in your usual platform or in your browser here: batchat.buzzsprout.com/680561/episo... .

Let us know what you think of the podcast by emailing comms@bats.org.uk .

Noctule bat in a gloved hand. Chocolate brown fur and a darker face.

South Lancashire Bat Group AGM tonight including a talk by Laura Torrent who, with her team, discovered the 1500th Bat species, Pipistrellus etula! Looking forward to an evening of batty goodness!

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Picture taken during licenced bat box checks with SLBG.

#bats #lovebats #batconservation

Tonight, Weds 4th Feb 7pm. 🦇

Aerial view of wetlands, UK copyright Steve D / Shutterstock

2026 will be a pivotal year for nature 🌍

Ahead of @ipbes.net #IPBES12, our Chief Scientist Dave Stone reflects on why the world can’t afford to miss this moment - and how JNCC is supporting the UK’s response.

Read the blog 👉 jncc.gov.uk/news/2026-a-...

#IPBES12 #NatureRecovery

#Bats🦇 play a vital role in ecosystems, from agricultural land to tropical forests. In tropical zones some species pollinate plants and disperse seeds while approximately 70% of the 1500 described bat species eat insects, including ones that can damage crops. www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...

When Vampire Bats Become Close Friends, They Start ‘Talking’ Like Each Other New research shows that just like humans, vampire bats with deep social relationships use similar sounds as one another to communicate

🦇🖤🦇 New bat research!

#bats #lovebats #batconservation #nature #naturalhistory #ecology

www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Just a reminder that this talk will be happening on Thursday, we hope to see you there!

#oxfordshire #oxford #bats #batsofinstagram

🦇 Nearly 1,000 people enjoyed our podcast #BatChat last week! Did you?

You can find it in your usual platform or in your browser here: batchat.buzzsprout.com/680561/episo... .

Let us know what you think of the podcast by emailing comms@bats.org.uk .

Colourful poster titled 'Scotland’s Big Climate and Nature Debate: Election Hustings' taking place on 24th February from 6 to 8 pm. Event available in Edinburgh at Augustine United Church, George IV Bridge, or online. Logos of partner organisations featured: Our Seas Coalition, Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, Scottish Environment LINK, Scottish Food Coalition, and Scottish Rewilding Alliance.

Join Scotland’s Big Climate and Nature Debate on Tues 24 Feb 6-8pm to discuss some of the world’s most pressing concerns with representatives of political parties ahead of the Scottish Elections. Online and in person!
Sign up! shorturl.at/fBS0o
#ScottishClimateandNatureDebate2026 #ElectionHustings

🦇 Through our eLearning platform we are pleased to offer new courses, modules and other educational content that can be purchased and completed at any time. We are in the process of developing more courses and modules for this site so check here for updates: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...

🦇If you want/need to work on a building that is home to a colony of bats our 'Bats and roost risk management in construction' course is for you!
- Online over two afternoons on 16 & 23 February (1:30pm - 5pm).
- Booking deadline: 15 February

Book now:
www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...

#Bats🦇 play a vital role in ecosystems, from agricultural land to tropical forests. In tropical zones some species pollinate plants and disperse seeds while approximately 70% of the 1500 described bat species eat insects, including ones that can damage crops. www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...

Illustration showing connections between climate change, water, food, biodiversity and health across a landscape with farms, wildlife, and people from https://zenodo.org/records/15673657. Creative Commons License 4.0

🌍The @ipbes.net Nexus Assessment shows how nature, water, food, health & climate are connected & why decisions can’t be made in silos.

Our new report reviews how UK & Devolved Gov policies reflect the Assessment’s 71 recommended actions & where gaps remain bit.ly/JNCCReport814

#IPBES #IPBES12 🧵

🦇 Bats are still hibernating. They have little fat left to live off of now. They may leave the roost on warmer nights to find food and a drink of water.

Brown long-eared bat flying over water looking at a reflection of itself on the water surface

Today is #WorldWetlandsDay - wetlands provide vital habitats for bat species in the UK with many being particularly reliant on clean waterbodies for their survival. Healthy wetlands are essential for people, #bats🦇 and other #wildlife.

Brown long-eared bat flying over a pond catching insects. The pond looks like its teeming with life and is full of plants floating on the surface and emerging from it

"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living." - Sir David Attenborough #bats🦇

Love Fest - A celebration of inspiring love of nature www.natureforall.global/love-fest

A chance to take part in a global celebration of nature - #NatureForAll Love Fest natureforall.global/love-fest/

UK Bats - Types of bats - Bat Conservation Trust We are lucky enough to have 18 species of bat in the UK, 17 of which are known to be breeding here - that's almost a quarter of our mammal species. Ever...

🦇 We are lucky enough to have 18 species of bat in the UK, 17 of which are known to be breeding here - that's almost a quarter of our mammal species.

Learn more about each unique species here:

Bats and Their Roles in Insect Management, Pollination Benefit from Beavers’ Ecosystem Work, Study Finds - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog In a recent study published by the British Ecological Society, researchers found that the bat species benefit from ecosystem services provided by beavers.

🦫🦇 In a study by #Swiss researchers in @britishecologicalsociety.org 's Animal Ecology, findings “suggest that #beaver engineering created structurally diverse #habitats that supported a broader range of #bat species.” #ecosystem #services #pestmanagement #dailynews ➡️ Blog: ow.ly/Aa0950Y6o2t

Some of the fun, and frankly weird, stuff found during bats surveys this month with @wiltsbatgroup.bsky.social. #caving #bats 🦇

"We're facing the potential of an ungovernable state unless Government takes this seriously."

We can rise to this challenge, but first we need to face it.

👉 Please ask your MP to join the Parliamentary Call for a televised emergency briefing to the nation.
www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...

Frozen pool and people walking in boggy landscape

View from inside Addit with gate and people standing on the outside

Footprints in snow over a wooden bridge

Natterers bat hibernating within a crevice an the Addit wall

Checking Addits in the North West of England for hibernating bats with Tina Wiffen. A cold and grey day but interesting explore of this historic industrial mining site. 10 Addits surveyed. 10 bats found. #batsofthenorth #bathibernation @batconservation.bsky.social

🦇 Bats are still hibernating. They have little fat left to live off of now. They may leave the roost on warmer nights to find food and a drink of water.

UK Bats - Types of bats - Bat Conservation Trust We are lucky enough to have 18 species of bat in the UK, 17 of which are known to be breeding here - that's almost a quarter of our mammal species. Ever...

🦇 We are lucky enough to have 18 species of bat in the UK, 17 of which are known to be breeding here - that's almost a quarter of our mammal species.

Learn more about each unique species here:

🦇 Through our eLearning platform we are pleased to offer new courses, modules and other educational content that can be purchased and completed at any time. We are in the process of developing more courses and modules for this site so check here for updates: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...