Bats don't need GPS - they have 3D sonic mapping!
Bat echolocation has inspired sonar technology, robot navigation and the Ultracane™ for the visually impaired. Nature is the best inventor! 💥💡🚀
📸 Sally-Ann Hurry
#WCID #WorldCreativityandInnovationDay #biomimicry
📣 TOMORROW at 12pm BST | 1pm SAST/CAT 📣
Donations will be doubled for 7 days!
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... 🌟
Funds will go to Bats in Buildings - a community science programme to survey bats in the built environment across southern Africa.
#BigGive #DonateNow #bats #batconservation
🌟 TOMORROW! 🌟
Last chance to sign-up to Liam McGuire's #WingedWednesday #webinar!
🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html
📅 Wednesday 22 April
🕰 3pm SAST/CAT | 2pm BST | 9am EDT |
🌍⏰ Remember to adjust for your local time zone!
📸 Brock Fenton
#bats #batconservation #migration #batmigration
📸 Laura Torrent, Sally-Ann Hurry, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Keith Bohannon, De Jong & Butynski and Stephanie McDougall
#BatAppreciationDay #Bats #Batconservation
This #WorldArtDay why not book yourself onto our fun, hour-long bat drawing workshop at the end of the month!
No previous artistic skills required, come along and try your hand at drawing southern African bats 🦇
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986416652...
#naturedrawing #artworkshop #drawingclass
🌟 1 week to go! 🌟
The McGuire lab at the University of Waterloo, Canada, has been studying bat migration for years, and this talk will get into some of those stories.
🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html
🌍 ⏰ Reminder that the clocks have changed for some!
#bats #migration #batmigration
🌟 2 weeks to go! 🌟
We are looking forward to Associate Professor Liam McGuire's April #WingedWednesday #webinar!
📅 Wed 22 April
🕰 3pm SAST/CAT | 2pm BST | 9am EDT |
🌍 ⏰ Clocks will have changed for some so do remember to adjust for your local timezone
🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html
#WorldHealthDay reminder: a healthy planet is the foundation of our health.
Forests clean the air we breathe. Oceans provide food and regulate the climate. Soils grow what we eat. Freshwater sustains life.
Protecting ecosystems means protecting people.
📣 We are delighted to share details of our event later this month about the Rufford Foundation Small Grants Programme.
Join Simon Mickleburgh to learn more about the programme in this free online event.
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986627414....
See you there! 📝 🦇
#TuesdayTips #grantwriting
What can bats teach us about human health?
Researchers are studying bat genomes 🧬 to understand bats' unique ability to fight viruses 🦠.
Understanding bat health resilience could unlock new pathways for human medicine in inflammation and much more.
#WorldHealthDay #StandWithScience #Immunology
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our #WingedWednesday webinar this week from Santiago Perea on 'Bioacoustics as Biodiversity Evidence: Strengths, Uncertainties and Global Applications.'
You can catch up here: youtu.be/5Wm5w3gpHik?...
#FridayFeeling #bioacoustics
Join us for our April #WingedWednesday #webinar with Liam McGuire, Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada. 🇨🇦
🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html
⏰ Gentle reminder to check local timezones due to clock changes in some areas 😊
#bats #batconservation #migration
Happy #InternationalDayofHappiness! ☺️🦇🌿💛🌈
Protecting bats and their habitats improves human health and happiness by reducing stress and anxiety, restoring cognitive function, providing connection, strengthening immune systems and encouraging physical activity.
📸 Yvonne de Jong & Tom Butynski
Our habitat restoration at Lusaka Golf Club ⛳ has been progressing well 👏
The team have been reducing the invasive shrub species common lantana (Lantana camara).
Special thanks to our dedicated team: Taonga, Mr Timothy, Costa, Bupe and Moses 🙏
#FridayFeeling #invasivespecies #Lusaka
🌟 1 week to go! 🌟
Our first #WingedWednesday #webinar of the year by Santiago Perea is just a week away!
📅 Wednesday 25th March
🕰️ 3pm SAST/CAT | 1pm GMT | 9am EDT |
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🌍 ⏰ Reminder to adjust for your local timezone 😉
#bats #batconservation #bioacoustics
🌟 Less than 2 weeks to go! 🌟
We can't wait for our first #WingedWednesday #webinar of the year with Santiago Perea!
📅 Wednesday 25th March
🕰 3pm SAST | 1pm GMT | 9am EDT |
Sign-up here:
🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html
#webinar #bats #batconservation #bioacoustics
Restoring nature - together - for the benefit of people and the planet is what the #HabitatConnections project is all about!
🤝 @wwfzambia.bsky.social and Birdwatch Zambia with us at Lusaka Golf Club managing the invasive lantara with Uni of Zambia students last week.
#invasiveplants
Let's encourage a spirit of generosity, collaboration and support this IWD! 🤗 🤝 💪 #GiveToGain
#IWD #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay
This 💫 #ThrowbackThursday we are reflecting on it being a year since our last Women In Bat Science indaba! It was a hugely inspiring webinar with the Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks leaders.
It is available to watch on our YouTube channel below:
▶️ youtu.be/9jOrONA8hJk?si=q-AwJ4_q5y5QOBki
🔜 Our first Winged Wednesday Webinar of 2026 is with Santiago Perea, a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 🇺🇸
🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html
🌍 ⏰ Please note that the webinar is fixed at 3pm southern African standard time - friendly reminder to adjust for your local timezone
📍 Are you in #Lusaka?
🦜 Interested in urban wildlife?
The Habitat Connections project, a collaboration between Bats without Borders and BirdWatch Zambia, is hosting a FREE bird walk this Friday 6am - 11am at Bonanza Golf Course ⛳
#Zambia #birds #birdwalk #livingthegreen #wildlifeonthecourse
Abigail Karimanzira, one of our 2023 bat group trainees, presented at the Women Conserving Southern Africa congress in Kasane, Botswana yesterday. Her talk was on promoting citizen science in bat conservation in Zimbabwe 🦇
#WCSA2026 #womeninconservation #womeninleadership #womeninwildlife
Need some inspiration for a batty Valentine's message this year? 💌
Well, look no further... 🦇 ❤️
💌 'We're bat-ter together'
🦇 'My heart bats for you'
💌 'Guano be my Valentine?'
🦇 'Wanna hang?'
💌 'I'm batty for you'
🦇 'Let's hang out forever'
📸 Andy Price
#valentine #valentinesday2026 #lovebats
🔜 ⏳ Just a few weeks now until our 2026 Winged Wednesday Webinars kick off 👏
✏️ Please note the slight schedule change: Santiago Perea is now speaking on 25 March 2026.
Webinars are 1hr long and always at 3pm southern African time
To sign up for free, visit: www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars
That feeling when you realise it’s Friday! 🦇💨
Flying into the weekend like.. 🦟🪰🥭🍌
Did you know some bats can eat thousands of insects in a single night? Talk about a midnight snack! 🤯
Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to find our own snacks. 😋
📸 Daniel Whitby
#FridayFeeling #bats #lovebats
It is almost February and love is in the air!
Our #Lovebats range on Teemill is the perfect Valentine's gift for the bat-lover in your life 🦇 ❤️
Support Bats without Borders while you shop the collection:
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#valentinesday2026 #sustainable #ethical
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This #ChampionTuesday, we are celebrating the wonderful trainers who have just completed their online Train the Trainer course on our environmental education programme, Classrooms without Walls 👏 🦇
🔗 If you would like to join the next batch of training, sign up here: forms.office.com/e/HMHp3wzV8C
Today is #WorldEnvironmentalEducationDay 🌍 and we are celebrating 'the power of youth in co-creating education'.
2026 will see the launch of our co-design book about the migration of the straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) with Ndola Primary School in Zambia! 📖 🦇
Watch this space 👀
THANK YOU wonderful supporters and friends! 🙏 🦇
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