We were honored when Penn State Dickinson School of Law’s Student Animal Legal Defense Fund included Save Lucy in their Year of the Bat fundraiser. They raised enough money to help subsidize adult education programs, purchase Lucy’s Club incentives, or provide 4 months of mealworms for the education bats. However in our initial annoucement of their incredible generosity, we inadvertently left out the members of the ALDF’s University Park Branch. They are: Holly Moncavage, Jessica Brown, John Novak, and Jesse Baez to whom we extend a belated but heartfelt Thank You. Because we don’t yet have a picture of these fine young people to post, we thought we’d share a picture of a happy bat instead to show how the SALDF is helping bats!
Please join us for Bats: The Only Flying Mammals December 14, 2001, 6:30pm-8:30pm Meadowside Nature Center, 5100 Meadowside Lane (located in Rock Creek Regional Park), Rockville, Maryland 20855 301-258-4030 Join Park Naturalist and bat
We are happy to present ‘the year’s almost over’ report for our first year of operations. SL year end 2011B We are very, very happy with our first year. We just wish the fight against WNS was going so well. Please don’t forget, WNS is still here and it’s still moving. We need to keep letting our friends and legislators know that bats are important, not just for agricultural and forest pest control, but as representatives of the diversity and beauty of North America’s native wildlife. Didn’t see the link above? Click here to read the report: SL year end 2011B
We are honored and grateful that Penn State Dickinson School of Law’s Student Animal Legal Defense Fund included Save Lucy in their Year of the Bat fundraiser. They raised enough money to help subsidize adult education programs, purchase Lucy’s Club incentives, or provide 4 months of mealworms for the education bats. UPDATE December 30: We inadvertently left out the members of the ALDF’s University Park Branch. They are: Holly Moncavage, Jessica Brown, John Novak, and Jesse Baez. And we extend a huge and heartfelt Thank You to these wonderful people. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Just in time for the holidays, and with a few hours of cyber Monday left, we present this list of great places to find batty stuff. Let your friends and loved ones know you care about them with a fantastic bat gift, and support a great organization or small business at the same time. Or send the links to Santa or whoever is most likely to bring you presents! Gifts Adopt a bat, gift baskets, wine, and other fun things are in stock at Bat World Sanctuary Bat Conservation International and our favorite bat and cave goods store have teamed to provide cool stuff at Batgoods.com For the hard-core bat enthusiast, Bat Conservation & Management supplies bat boxes and kits, bat condos, and great field equipment Art enthusiasts will have a great time cruising Etsy’s offerings (search on bats). One of our favorite artists is Eastwitching Books For young readers there are a plethora of publications, some suggestions follow: The ever-popular Stellaluna by Janell Cannon Bats at the Beach, Bats at the Library, and Bats at the Ballgame by Brian Lies Bat Loves the Night by Nicola Davies Baby Bat’s Lullaby by Jaquelyn Michard Little Lost Bat by Sandra Markle The Christmas Secret by Tesia Johnasen (available here) Little Red Bat by Carole Gerber Or snuggle ’round the fireplace and read Lucy’s Story (link on left menu) on your laptop! For older readers we like The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell Pippa’s First Summer by Catherine Badgley The Silverwing series by Kenneth Oppel The Underland Chronicles series by Suzanne Collins (talking bats, rats, and cockroaches, yay!!) Happy gifting!
ISU’s Center for North American Bat Research and Conservation hosts an annual Bat Festival. An art competition is part of the festival. Visit the images here . First place is totally awesome! And remember, you can upload your own artwork right here to the I Care Project. Feel like drawing bats? Visit the art contest above for inspiration. Or send your videos, poems, essays, random thoughts to saveLucy[at]saveLucytheBat.org
We made some changes to make the navigation easier. The blog can now be accessed through the left hand menu on the home page and we added some submenus for informaiton about Lucy and about being bat friendly. We also added a Bats in the News section to keep you up to date on all the cool stuff being reported about bats. Please check out the changes and let us know if anything isn’t working as it should. Click me!
If you have recently registered for the Save Lucy club, and find you have been deleted, please e-mail us (contact info can be found on the home page). We are getting lots of suspicious sign ups and we are deleting them as soon as we see them, but we may have deleted ‘real’ people by mistake. Please let us know if you have any trouble using the site. Thank you Lucy’s people
Check out California Bat friends Cindy Myers and Project Wildlife on KUSI news in San Diego. Especially check out the amazingly adorable Western Pipistrelle in the photos. Also, check out Leslie & Sherry of Save Lucy on Voice of America here. Be sure to watch the video to see Mooch the big brown, Shaggy the red bat, and the orphan tri-colored bats, Titan and Monkey.