The video below shows Soprano Pipistrelles Pipistrellus pygmaeus emerging from a maternity roost at dusk during one of our bat surveys during June 2017. Soprano pipistrelle maternity roosts can number…

Bat bridges erected across many highways to reduce roadkill are not working, according to this article in the Independent. During an interview with this newspaper, John Altringham, Professor of Ecology and…

Bat populations are generally understood to have undergone significant declines throughout Europe, particularly during the second half of the 20th century. The declines have been variously attributed to the intensification of agriculture, persecution, destruction…

For years scientists have speculated that the unexpected number of bat fatalities around wind farms is the result of barotrauma-related injuries. Baerwald et al (2008) published a paper entitled ‘Barotrauma is…