Bat Week Toolkit
Bat Week Toolkit
Bat Week is an annual event celebrated every Oct. 24 –Oct. 31. This is the best time to highlight the importance of bats on your social media channels and get your followers involved! Here are some ideas on how you and your organization can join us during Bat Week.
Download the Digital Toolkit and share with your peers.
Follow Bat Week on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Use #BatWeek when posting.
Use these assets to share your love of bats:
- Square social media graphics (1080 x 1080, English & Spanish)
- Vertical social media graphics (1080 x 1920, English & Spanish)
- Faces of Bat Week posters (English)
- Print flyer (English)
- Send an email with this template.
- Pitch your event to the media.
- Give a presentation about bats.
The weeks leading up to Bat Week provide a great opportunity to engage on social sites to promote local events and to educate the public about bats, their role in nature, their importance to agriculture, and the threats they face due to White-nose Syndrome and habitat loss.
Key Social Media Accounts
| Organization | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| BatWeek | @Bat_Week | @BatWeek | @BatWeek |
| Bat Conservation International | @BatConIntl | @BatCon | @BatConservationInternational |
| Lubee Bat Conservancy | @BatConservancy | @LubeeBatConservancy | @LubeeBatConservancy |
| National Park Service | @NatlParkService | @nationalparkservice | @nationalparkservice |
| Parks Canada | @ParksCanada | @ParksCanada | @Parks.Canada |
| The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative | @CWHCRCSF | @cwhcrcsf | |
| The Save Lucy Campaign | @SaveLucyTheBat | @TheSaveLucyCampaign | @TheSaveLucyCampaign |
| The Wildlife Habitat Council | @WildlifeHC | @wildlifehabitatcouncil | N/A |
| US Fish and Wildlife Service | @USFWS | @usfws | @usfws |
| US Forest Service | @forestservice | @USForestService | @U.S.ForestService |
| US Geological Survey | @USGS | @USGeologicalSurvey | @usgs |
| Wildlife Acoustics | @WildlifeAcoust | @WildlifeAcoustics | @WildlifeAcoustics |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | @TheWCS | @TheWCS | @TheWCS |
| Bureau of Land Management | @BLMNational | @BLMNational | @mypubliclands |
Learn more about bats, white nose syndrome, the national response, and our partners at www.whitenosesyndrome.org.