devon greater horseshoe bat project

Hedgelaying event

Event Date: 
10/02/2016 - 10:00am
Venue: 
The Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth

The Donkey Sanctuary is working with Devon Greater Horseshoe Bat Project to hold a hedgelaying event on Wednesday 10 February in the Events Barn at The Sanctuary’s Sidmouth site from 10am till 4pm

Devon is home to one of the UK’s rarest bats, the greater horseshoe bat, and this fascinating species needs our help to increase its population to secure its future. Like much of our wildlife, it is under pressure due to habitat loss, so one of the ways we can help is to make sure that it has what it needs to carry out its nightly activity of hunting for insect prey.

In 2013 The...

‘Bat cam’ provides unique view of rare animals

Viewers of a very different kind of reality TV have been going batty in recent weeks.

People tuning into a live webcam of a greater horseshoe bat roost have seen hundreds of the rare animals appearing on screen at one time.

The bat cam is beaming live pictures around the world from an undisclosed greater horseshoe bat roost in South Devon. The camera was specially installed last winter as part of the Devon Greater Horseshoe Bat Project – a ifive year Heritage Lottery Funded initiative which is working towards sustaining Devon’s population of these threatened nocturnal...