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A selection of news related to EUROBATS and other bat conservation activities.
News items of previous years can be accessed in the Archive.

Publication No.6 translated to Japanese

EUROBATS Publication Series No. 6 “Guidelines for consideration of bats in wind farm projects” was translated into Japanese language by  the Bat Study and Conservation group of Japan, which has a working group on wind turbines.
The traslation is available online both on the BSCJ website  and as a PDF  below 

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Merlin Tuttle: give bats a break

Merling D. Tuttle, the founding father of  US bat conservation made a statement: searches for new viruses in bats are unlikely to contribute substantially to human health, but they may threaten the future of bats.

More information in the article below

 

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IUCN BSG Newsletter on Bats and Climate Change

A new issue of the IUCN Bat Specialist Group's newsletter, which is mostly devoted to the topic of influence of climate change on bats, has become available. See PDF below. 

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BAT-Habitecture - new exhibition opens in Germany

am Freitag, 15. September 2017 um 10 Uhr im Internationalen Fledermausmuseum Julianenhof

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Bat news from Latvia: 1000 migrating bats ringed in August, help needed

Migration season of 2017 is in full swing in Pape Ornithological Research Centre, where thousands of bats have been ringed since 2014. This year has set off as a slow one, with only ~1000 bats ringed, but a lot more are still to come. Some of the bats already ringed include 745 Nathusius’ bats (Pipistrellus nathusii), 62 Soprano pipistrelles (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) and a number of Parti-coloured bats (Vespertilio murinus) and other species.

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Call for help from Germany: radio-tagged bats in the European airspace!

Recent news from the "Monitoring Fledermauszug in Deutschland" project: starting from 13th of August 2017, 20 bats (12 Nyctalus leisleri and 8 Pipistrellus nathusii) will be tagged in East Germany (Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt) with 150 MHz-band transmitters for tracking their susequent migration routes. The project heavily depends on the participation of amateur radio operators across Europe and Northern Africa. The project coordinator is Mr. Hans-Joachim Vogl: DG1HVL.

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New issue of Hypsugo available online

A new issue of Hypsugo, the journal of bat research in Balkans, has recently been published, with the PDF version available online

This bulletin is a periodical, published by the Centre for Karst and Speleology (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Wildlife Conservation Society Mustela (Serbia) and Montenegrin Ecologists Society. 

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Response to recent accusation of bats as sources of EBOLA

EUROBATS Secretariat feels appropriate to publish following statement of the leading bat experts:

 

ELUSIVE EBOLA

 

by MB Fenton1, Rodrigo A. Medellin2, Ricardo Moratelli3, Paul A. Racey4, Nancy B. Simmons5 and Merlin D. Tuttle6

 

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Bats and Forestry leaflet translated to Ukrainian

We pleased to annonce that Dr. Elena Godlevska with a financial support of the Rufford Foundation has translated the leaflet to Ukrainian, which became the tenth language for this publication. It is available online both on the EUROBATS and UCEBA (Ukranian Centre for Bat Protection) websites. 

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Greek translation of Publication No. 6 available!

Greek translation of the “Guidelines for consideration of bats in wind farm projects”  has been published and available on EUROBATS website.

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