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Editorial: Winds of Change... |
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The Newsletter of the Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats |
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The European Bat Night |
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Read on about the Bat Night 2007! |
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Important Meetings in 2007 |
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The EUROBATS Secretariat is pleased to inform you about the 1st Meeting of the Standing Committee in March and the 12th Meeting of the Advisory Committee (AC) in May 2007. The Meeting of the Standing Committee was the first EUROBATS Meeting at the new UN Campus in Bonn, Germany. The Committee was established at the 5th Meeting of the Parties to deal with administrative and financial matters and to redesign the AC... |
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EUROBATS Publication Series |
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After the publication of the EUROBATS Publication Series No. 1: “1991-2006. EUROBATS celebrates its 15th anniversary” in 2006, we are pleased to announce that now also the second issue of the Series is available: “Protecting and managing underground sites for bats” by Tony Mitchell-Jones, Zoltán Bihari, Matti Masing & Luísa Rodrigues provides guidance to Parties and Range States on how to deal with underground sites in the best way … |
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Staff News: Welcome Tine, farewell Elise! |
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New Books out now |
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Earlier this year one of the part-time posts of Administrative Assistants in the EUROBATS Secretariat had become vacant. Already since May of this year it was provisionally filled by Tine Meyer-Cords. After completion of the usual recruitment procedures we are very happy to announce that effective 1 October Tine has been formally appointed to the post. Tine is actually not a newcomer to the bat conservation scene and some of you ... |
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Three new books appeared lately which we consider to be very informative and up to date so we decided to introduce them to you. Two of them are available in English and one was published in German: Bat Conservation Trust: Bat Surveys – Good Practice Guidelines. - Temple, H.J. and Terry, A. (Compilers): The Status and Distribution of European Mammals. - C. Dietz, O. von Helversen & D. Nill: Handbuch der Fledermäuse Europas und ... |
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Eurobat Chat |
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No. 12 / October 2007 |
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Since 1997 every year around the last weekend in August volunteer and professional bat workers have been called upon to invite the public to learn about bats, their biology, threats and conservation needs. All over Europe hundreds of people can participate in bat events like indoors or open air talks with sound samples or stuffed specimens, power-point presentations, 3D slide shows, and bat walks with ultrasound detectors at evening time. ... |
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Dear readers of the Eurobat Chat, It has been quite a while since we have been able to present you a new issue of our newsletter. This was mainly due to staff and budgetary constraints. However, it was never our intention to give up this useful information tool. More modern techniques have eventually reached the Secretariat and we are happy to present you today our ... |
