A new issue of the journal Hypsugo – dedicated to the research of bats of the Balkans and published by the Centre for Carst and Speleology, an NGO in Bosnia and Herzegovina – is available now:

As a result of Romania’s accession to the European Union in 2007 and the expansion of the Natura 2000 protected area network, the amount of data about the local bat fauna has grown rapidly in the last 10-15 years. Concrete bat conservation projects implemented by several NGOs also contributed a significant amount of professional observations. However, despite the fact that in many cases it would facilitate decision-making (e.g. in the case of infrastructure or energy projects), it would help to accurately determine the conservation status of bat species (e.g.

"How a dandelion can hold back a flood: Initiating the butterfly effect for good" - the film on importance of nature conservation, produced by National Geographic and in cooperation with the EUROBATS Secretariat, has been released.