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Today’s Bats Without Borders Webinar

Dr Teague O’Mara is today’s Bats Without Borders Webinar speaker. He will be talking about Connecting a Continent: tracking local and migratory movements of straw-coloured fruit bats.

This time of year, Kasanka National Park becomes the temporary home to millions of straw-coloured fruit bats. It is the world’s largest mammal migration! They begin to arrive just before the rains and the last bats fly out of the park around the New Year.

You can catch Dr Teague’s talk by pre-registering on the Bats Without Borders website – www.batswithoutborders.org You can also keep up to date with all their news on their Facebook Page.

If you would like to find out more about these amazing mammals and how you can to view them this coming Bat Season at Kasanka National Park, then check out their website and Facebook pages.

UK’s online Woodland Symposium 2020

The Bat Conservation Trust (UK) is running an online Woodland Symposium which will take place on 19th and 20th November. Although it is UK focused there are lots of lessons for us across Africa, so why not join in?

This two day online event is aimed at bat workers, landowners, ecologists and the woodland/forestry industry. They are delighted to welcome two keynote speakers to this symposium – Mike Render and George Peterken -and there will be additional talks and discussion panels along with specific networking sessions using breakout rooms.

The event will take place on Zoom and there is still time for you to sign up. For more details visit: www.bats.org.uk