Year of the Bat

The UNEP Convention on Migratory Species (Bonn Convention) and The Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats (EUROBATS) have teamed up to run the “Year of the Bat” campaign in 2011–2012.

Half of the earth’s species of bats are considered by the IUCN to be threatened, mainly due to various factors caused by human development. The campaign will therefore focus on promoting conservation, research and education on bats, in particular emphasizing bats’ significant function as pest controlling agents; mindblowing examples of consumption of as much as 13 tons of insects per night by huge urban based bat populations have been estimated.

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