FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about EUROBATS

How can you help?

In Europe there are a surprising number of local and national organisations either partly or totally devoted to the protection of bats and their environment. Many of them organise events to improve public awareness of bats and their problems. They also visit people who have bats in their homes or outbuildings, or even in churches, to dispel myths and to enable statutory nature-conservation bodies to provide advice.There are also numerous bat-box schemes which have been piloted by local groups, many of which have been carried forward by national or local nature-conservation authorities. They also record distribution and changes in population and its behaviour, and take in sick, injured or orphaned bats to release them back into the wild.

You don’t have to be a scientist or biologist to get involved in bat conservation. But it can be informative and great fun to become involved in groups, where the activity takes place outdoors, and often at night!

All you have to do is to contact your local or national bat-conservation group. If you do not know any such group in your area, and your local nature-conservation authorities cannot help either, then you can contact us at the EUROBATS Secretariat, and we can try to find out the nearest group to you, or to put you in touch with other experienced bat groups who are not so close....it might mean you have the opportunity of setting up a local bat group yourself!