Every step you take matters for bats this October when you participate in the Step Up For Bats Challenge. Whether you walk, run, bike, or swim, any fitness activity counts! Join the challenge to trek a collective 15,000 miles (30 million steps) around the globe to raise awareness of the importance of bats, and $25,000 to support Bat Conservation International’s work to protect them. At each destination, you’ll unlock a milestone badge and special content! You can earn awards for…
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Educators! Bat Week is just around the corner. You don't want to miss this opportunity to engage your students in learning all about bats with Woodland Park Zoo and our partners, Bats Northwest. Join us October 24-31 for Bat Week 2021. We've planned a full week of presentations, games, crafts, and other batty distance learning activities. Sign up for a free educator account on our newest resource, Discovery Den, to access all our Bat Week content and much more. More…
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Join us for a week of daily guest engagement activities centered around our fuzzy friends...bats! We'll learn how bats fly, hear, and why they are so important to the ecosystem through hands on activities and crafts.
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Join Toronto Zoo's Native Bat Conservation staff for a live reading of "Stellaluna" by Janell Cannon on Toronto Zoo's Facebook page at 1PM EST. This story is included in the National Education Association and School Library Journal's list of 100 best children's books of all time. This is the story of a young fruit bat who becomes separated from her mother and lands in a nest of baby birds, becoming an adoptive member of the bird family. The baby bat…
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Bat Week is teaming up with Johnny Morris' Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium and Mission Conservation to bring you the brand new Bat Week Celebration Cookbook. Thelma Redick (Bat Week organizing committee co-chair) and Jordi Segers (Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative) will talk about the value bats bring in pest control, pollination, and seed dispersal, through which we have access to a spectacular variety of ingredients in our every day cooking. Join us live on October 26 on Youtube:…
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Johnny Morris' Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium and Mission Conservation are hosting this Bat Week Celebration Cookbook Youtube live event. Thelma Redick (Bat Week organizing committee) and Jordi Segers (Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative) will talk about bats' amazing role in pollination, seed dispersal, and insect control, while sharing ideas for delicious recipes made from ingredients provided by bats' ecological services.
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The Virtual Book Club is a place for educators of all types and grade levels to get together and chat about science and literacy, usually around a theme in conservation. We read the same book(s) and then meet on Zoom to share our thoughts. What makes this book club different, however, is our focus on education. We don't just take a look at the books, their meaning and themes. We also discuss ways that we could bring the books into…
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We will have local bat experts from the University of Regina and Ministry of Environment on hand for this fun-filled event. Spend some time outdoors, get some exercise and learn more about Saskatchewan’s bat populations! Location: North of the Dr. Archer Library and University Drive North, next to Wascana Lake by the Jardin de l’esprit/Mind’s Garden sculpture Saskatchewan Regina
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Join the Toronto Zoo's Native Bat Conservation Program staff on a quick presentation on sound and echolocation. Live video will start from Toronto Zoo's main Facebook page. Hope to see you there! https://www.torontozoo.com/bats https://www.facebook.com/TheTorontoZoo
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Bats in Churches is a five year project to help people and bats live more harmoniously together in churches in England. For International Bat Week we want to put the topic of bats use of sacred places into a global context. Join us online at 13:00 (GMT) for a webinar where we will journey from Christian churches to Hindu temples, to sacred caves of Madagascar. We'll explore how important these structures are for the bats, as well as looking at…
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