This year the very modest budget and limited staff did not allow the Bulgarian bat enthusiasts to organize as much activities to celebrate the European Bat Night as they wished…
The Bat Research & Protection Group and the National Museum of Natural History in cooperation with the Regional Museum of History organized the European Bat Night for a second year in the town of Rousse.
On, 30th of September, from 14.00 students and teachers were invited in the building of the Pantheon of the Revival for a multimedia presentation given by Dr Teodora Ivanova – “Everything you would like to learn about the bats”. The talk was dedicated to the memory of the naturalists and founder of one of the first natural history collections in Bulgaria – the teacher from Rousse – Vassil Kovachev (1866-1926) who published the first scientific data about bats in Bulgaria.

Later in the afternoon the group of about 60 enthusiasts visited the rocky cliffs in the foothills of the mediaeval town of Cherven, situated in the Nature Park of Roussenski Lom. Here the young bat-fens checked and cleaned the transect of 15 bat boxes, observed the spectacular early afternoon emergence of Noctule bats and listed to the bats with ultrasound detectors.
We would like to express our special thanks to the regional media and the firm “Nov Dom”-Rousse for the support and help to organize the 8EBN!

Teodora Ivanova,
National EBN coordinator
NMNH-BAS, Sofia

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