Wildlife rescue, Inc has graciously agreed to co-host a one-day bat rehabilitation workshop at Sandy Bottom Nature Park in Hampton, VA. The date is Saturday, Dec 1, and the workshop meets from 9am–3pm. You can register by jumping to the Education Program tab at left. Open the flyer below for more details.
Please come see Save Lucy President, Leslie Sturges, at the kickoff presentation for the GMU Sustainability Institute and ReBuild’s partnership workshop series. Register here.
On Tuesday, the US Fish & Wildlife Service announced that 5.7 to 6.7 MILLION bats have died in northeastern North America since 2006. We are very sad to hear this news, but we believe that people who are willing to stand up for bats can help safeguard the remaining bat populations. Please do your part to let people know that bats are important and that they aren’t creepy, scary or dangerous. Thanks for helping! For more information see the USFWS press release here or these articles from the Washington Post NY Times Green Blog Los Angeles Times
President Leslie Sturges and Board Member Vicki Windham are at the annual NEBWG meeting in Carlisle PA. There are over 100 biologists, state agency representatives, educators, researchers, and students here. Our friends from Speleobooks, Emily & Mike are here too. Please check out their store for lots of batty goodies and support a business that supports the bat community.
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!