The Ninth European Bat Night in Bulgaria took place in the region of the Protected area "Brashljan-Kalimok", a wetland along Danube river. It was organised by the NGO Bat Research and Protection Group, the National Museum of Natural History and the Museum of History in Tutrakan. The topic was Bats & Wetlands aiming to stress the importance of the wetlands as bat habitats.
That is why a new leaflet ("Bats and Wetlands") about the role of the wetlands in the bat life was designed, printed and distributed.

Main events took part on September 27th in the old town of Tutrakan. An exhibition "About bats" was open in the Museum of History. It consists of about 50 colorful photos of bats and their habitats in Bulgaria, posters about bat conservation from all over Europe and a number of children drawings. Later in the afternoon there was a multimedia presentation and the real night event was a bat detector walk along the riparian forest near Danube river.

The whole week the team of BRPG was traveling in the area and performing a presentation about bats and bat protection in many local schools. More then 600 students and teachers have had the chance to learn about bats. All the time the regional media broadly announced the events.
On 10th of October the Bat Night took part also in the area of the Nature Park Vrachanski Balkan in the town of Vratza. There was a competition for children drawings on the asphalt.

The 9EBN was supported by the GEF Project Wetlands Restoration and Pollution Reduction TF050706BUL and EUROBATS.

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