PeterJun 14, 2024

Life cam of a colony of greater horseshoe bats 🦇
Fascinating to have a close look at these animals.
They live in attics, church towers, in ruins and caves and need the darkness to thrive.
Help them by avoiding light in their proximity and by adhering to bat friendlier lighting as proposed by #EUROBATS https://www.eurobats.org/node/1563

Life cam: https://www.lbv.de/ratgeber/naturwissen/tier-webcams/hufeisennase-webcam/

#biodiversity #night #lighting #conservation

Guidelines for consideration of bats in lighting projects | UNEP/EUROBATS

PeterAug 27, 2023
It’s #batnight. Cover your lights manually, use shielded or better switch them off. For lighting projects, adhere to #eurobats guidelines: https://www.eurobats.org/node/1563
#lighting #darksky #night #biodiversity
Guidelines for consideration of bats in lighting projects | UNEP/EUROBATS

Christian VOIGTMar 30, 2023
Happy to be back to the advisory meeting of #unep #eurobats. Lots of things to resolve to protect a highly vulnerable taxon, namely bats. For example, unregulated erection and operation of wind turbines across #Europe. Thousands of #bats collide with and die at wind turbines in Europe. We lose important ecosystem players, which adds to the biodiversity crisis. We need to do better and curtail the operation of turbines at times of high bat activity.