Impact of Roads and other Traffic Infrastructures on Bats
The IWG was established at the 12th Meeting of the Advisory Committee in Budapest to look into methods to minimize the impact of roads and other infrastructures (railways, airports) on bats. Its objectives include
- the collection and review the different studies, scientific literature and impact assessment reports available on bat mortality, habitat fragmentation relating to roads, railways, etc;
- the collection and review technical documents on the approach to road building and landscape management able to minimize impacts when constructing new infrastructures;
- the production of general guidelines to raise awareness on the impact of traffic infrastructures on bats and provide some advice for evaluating mortality, fragmentation of habitats and others impacts on bats;
- the preparation of a resolution in order to take into account bats in impact assessments of all traffic infrastructures.
Resolutions:
Resolution 6.14 Impact of Roads and Other Traffic Infrastructures on Bats
Resolution 7.9 Impact of Roads and Other Traffic Infrastructures on Bats (effective)
Reports:
14th Meeting of the Advisory Committee, Tochni / Larnaca, Cyprus, 11 – 13 May 2009
15th Meeting of the Advisory Committee, Bonn, Germany, 3 – 6 May 2010
19th Meeting of the Advisory Committee, Heraklion, Greece, 7 – 10 April 2014
20thMeeting of the Advisory Committee Budva, Montenegro, 23 – 25 March 2015
21st Meeting of the Advisory Committee, Zandvoort, the Netherlands, 18 – 20 April 2016
22nd Meeting of the Advisory Committee Belgrade, Serbia, 27 – 29 March 2017
24th Meeting of the Advisory Committee Skopje, North Macedonia, 1 – 3 April 2019
EUROBATS publications:
A copy of the poster presented to the European Bat Research Symposium in Croatia 2014