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23 May
2008…………...For Immediate Release
BATTING AROUND
BAT SURVEYING
WORKSHOP
Starting at 3.00 pm
on Saturday 7 June 2008 at Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, near Coventry
Warwickshire
Wildlife Trust would like to invite you to join them in this
afternoon/evening workshop led by the Bat Conservation Trust aimed at
potential volunteers who will be interested in helping us to survey bats
for local and national projects. Learn
how to use a bat detector, listen to bat calls and learn how to identify
bats.
Places
are confirmed on receipt of payment.
To
book your place please contact Andrew Heath on 0121 244 8946 or
by
e-mail: Andrew@theheaths.org
(Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment)
Bats
are amazing animals, and an important part of our natural environment, but
their numbers have decreased so dramatically that all 17 British species
are closely protected by law. For example, in
Britain
it is illegal merely to disturb bats or the places where they roost.
Warwickshire
hosts ten of those seventeen species, so surveying our ‘home’
populations is important in helping to paint the overall picture of the
numbers of bats and their roosts in the
UK
as a whole.
Bernie
Higgins
, Reserves Biodiversity Officer for Warwickshire
Wildlife Trust says, “To our ears,
tuned to a noisy world, bats squeak, but to the finely-tuned ears of a
fellow bat that squeak is a shout – and bats have a lot to shout about.
They and their habitats are constantly under threat and, being small and
nocturnal, they simply don’t receive the press that other similarly
threatened species do, hence the need for this vital workshop. Come along
and find out how to survey for our native species of bat and, equally
important, how to improve their prospects.”
ENDS
Press
Contact:
Bernie Higgins
on 024 7630 8993.
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