The Slovenian Association for Bat Research and Conservation (SDPVN) prepared a large event in 2004, as European Bat Night lasted for 7 nights and days! This year, we are happy to say that many joined the event: The Škocjan Caves Regional Park organised the events in Divaca and Škocjan, Museum of Gorenjska organised the children workshop in Kranj. We are thankful also to many others, who enabled various events, especially “Center Evropa”, Caffee “Plocnik” and “Colnarna” in Ljubljana and ZIK in Crnomelj.
Activities were organized in five cities of different regions in Slovenia: in Divaca, Škocjan, Kranj, Ljubljana and Crnomelj, which involved a lot of people. Also the media paid a lot of attention about the event, with many articles in the newspapers and shows on the radio.
We prepared lectures with slide shows about bats and evening walks with bat detectors. In Ljubljana and Crnomelj, photo exhibitions of bats were put up. There were artistic workshops for children, followed by playing a game “how bats catch moths”. In Divaca elementary school, children drawings of bats were exhibited.
In Ljubljana, one of the biggest events of EBN was also the announcement of the winners of the artists, which participated in SDPVN’s competition “Catch the bat onto the whiteness of paper”, which was aimed at the best original comic story about bats.

Some pictures from EBN 2004 in Slovenia can be seen on
http://www.sdpvn-drustvo.si.

Alenka Petrinjak & Maja Zagmajster

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