City Bats Conservancy

11/25/2023

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10/27/2022

We will no longer be using Facebook as our primary social media account. Please head over to instagram to follow. Thank you!

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09/14/2022

Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes to protect the tricolored bat (𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘺𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘶𝘴) as an Endangered species. Bat Conservation International fully supports using the full power of the Endangered Species Act to protect the tricolored bat. Listing this bat as Endangered is critically needed.

The tricolored bat was once common throughout the eastern United States but has lost more than 90% of the known population from the disease White-nose Syndrome.
BCI was part of the team working with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) to provide the USFWS with the critical data needed to assess the status of the species and inform the decision.

Protection under the Endangered Species Act is the wake-up call that galvanizes our focus on the conservation actions needed to save and recover this species. Only by working together will we save this species from extinction.
batcon.org/press/proposed-policy-decision-for-tricolored-bats/

📷Rachel Harper

09/11/2022

This big-eared beauty is a little-known Florida bonneted bat'. As the most endangered bat species in Florida, its population is believed to only be in the hundreds. Researchers have found that this species is particularly hard to study because they tend to travel at heights above traditional mist netting setups, the method used to capture bats. However, we do know that the bonneted bat is vulnerable to habitat loss, habitat alteration (like the removal of old trees with cavities, or buildings with spaces suitable for roosting), and pesticide spraying for mosquitoes.

06/15/2022

06/08/2022

Baby season! Mama and babies doing well and hope for a release soon! Red bat.💕🦇

06/03/2022

RSVP for this special Facebook live event happening next Wednesday: bit.ly/RAWAbats

05/29/2022

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Remember to never handle bats. I am licensed, trained and vaccinated.
Philip and Louis have very different personalities. They are both big gentle giants, but Phil is much more happy to just chill in the background. Very strangely, he loves getting cuddles in his back! Most bats hate being on their back.

05/27/2022

Through acoustic monitoring, surveys, installing bat boxes, and testing new artificial roost designs, the Florida Power and Light Bat Lab at Zoo Miami has created collaborative research initiatives and applied conservation management efforts across Miami-Dade County and South Florida to support the Federally Endangered Florida bonneted bat.
This new report highlights the efforts and achievements over the last three years.
�https://www.batcon.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/FBB-Miami-BatLab-Report-2019-2021.pdf



📷Melquidesec Gamba-Rios

05/05/2022

Happy Be Kind to Animals Week!

Use the free Animal Help Now App or visit https://ahnow.org to find humane animal control operators under ‘Wildlife Conflict.’

04/26/2022

Truly a sight! So happy to live near here!

Welcome to the World’s Largest Occupied Bat Houses. The two University of Florida Bat Barns and Bat House, far right, are located on the north side of Museum Road across from Lake Alice on the UF campus.