Organization for Bat Conservation
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Organization for Bat Conservation (OBC) is an nonprofit organization to further Bat Conservation. It is a conservationist
organization, founded by Rob Mies and Kim Williams in the late 1990s. OBC’s vision is to inspire a peaceful coexistence between bats and humans and to promote global participation in bat
conservation. OBC accomplishes their vision through public education, wildlife management, conservation programs and habitat protection.
, it is largest annual bat festival
in the Great Lakes region. OBC produces educational material including the award-winning video, “Bats the True Story,” books, posters and educational handouts. Books authored include the first bat field guide, “Beginner’s Guide to Bats”, and “Understanding Bats”.
The nonprofit Organization for Bat Conservation uses proceeds from educational programs, bat house sales, memberships and donations to house and feed all the rescued animals it cares for at the Bat Zone, and to further bat conservation efforts thought the U.S. and the world. Visit OBC on the Web at http://www.batconservation.org to read more about our current conservation efforts.
Organization for Bat Conservation (OBC) is an nonprofit organization to further Bat Conservation. It is a conservationist
organization, founded by Rob Mies and Kim Williams in the late 1990s. OBC’s vision is to inspire a peaceful coexistence between bats and humans and to promote global participation in bat
conservation. OBC accomplishes their vision through public education, wildlife management, conservation programs and habitat protection.
, it is largest annual bat festival
in the Great Lakes region. OBC produces educational material including the award-winning video, “Bats the True Story,” books, posters and educational handouts. Books authored include the first bat field guide, “Beginner’s Guide to Bats”, and “Understanding Bats”.
The nonprofit Organization for Bat Conservation uses proceeds from educational programs, bat house sales, memberships and donations to house and feed all the rescued animals it cares for at the Bat Zone, and to further bat conservation efforts thought the U.S. and the world. Visit OBC on the Web at http://www.batconservation.org to read more about our current conservation efforts.
Organization for Bat Conservation (OBC) is an nonprofit organization to further Bat Conservation. It is a conservationist
organization, founded by Rob Mies and Kim Williams in the late 1990s. OBC’s vision is to inspire a peaceful coexistence between bats and humans and to promote global participation in bat
conservation. OBC accomplishes their vision through public education, wildlife management, conservation programs and habitat protection.
, it is largest annual bat festival
in the Great Lakes region. OBC produces educational material including the award-winning video, “Bats the True Story,” books, posters and educational handouts. Books authored include the first bat field guide, “Beginner’s Guide to Bats”, and “Understanding Bats”.
The nonprofit Organization for Bat Conservation uses proceeds from educational programs, bat house sales, memberships and donations to house and feed all the rescued animals it cares for at the Bat Zone, and to further bat conservation efforts thought the U.S. and the world. Visit OBC on the Web at http://www.batconservation.org to read more about our current conservation efforts.
Conservationist
Conservationists are proponents or advocates of conservation. They advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment...
organization, founded by Rob Mies and Kim Williams in the late 1990s. OBC’s vision is to inspire a peaceful coexistence between bats and humans and to promote global participation in bat
Bat
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera "hand" and pteron "wing") whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, glide rather than fly,...
conservation. OBC accomplishes their vision through public education, wildlife management, conservation programs and habitat protection.
History
The Organization for Bat Conservation has the largest grass-roots bat conservation educational project in the United States. Each year, over 250,000 people attend a live bat program or visit the Bat Zone at Cranbrook Institute of Science. Every year, since 2002, the Organization for Bat Conservation hosts the Great Lakes Bat FestivalBat festival
The Great Lakes Bat Festival is an annual two-day summer event that started in 2002.1 It has been held at the Cranbrook Institute of Science Bat Zone in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan2, at the Indiana State University Center for North American Bat Research and Conservation in Terre Haute, Indiana3, at...
, it is largest annual bat festival
Bat festival
The Great Lakes Bat Festival is an annual two-day summer event that started in 2002.1 It has been held at the Cranbrook Institute of Science Bat Zone in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan2, at the Indiana State University Center for North American Bat Research and Conservation in Terre Haute, Indiana3, at...
in the Great Lakes region. OBC produces educational material including the award-winning video, “Bats the True Story,” books, posters and educational handouts. Books authored include the first bat field guide, “Beginner’s Guide to Bats”, and “Understanding Bats”.
The nonprofit Organization for Bat Conservation uses proceeds from educational programs, bat house sales, memberships and donations to house and feed all the rescued animals it cares for at the Bat Zone, and to further bat conservation efforts thought the U.S. and the world. Visit OBC on the Web at http://www.batconservation.org to read more about our current conservation efforts.
North America
- Supporting White-Nose FungusWhite nose syndromeWhite nose syndrome is a poorly understood disease associated with the deaths of more than a million bats. The condition, named for a distinctive fungal growth around the muzzles and on the wings of many affected animals, was first identified in a cave in Schoharie County, New York, USA, in...
research - Reducing wind farmWind farmA wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...
mortality - Bat house habitation success
- Land surveys for public and private land owner to identify roosts for protection
Africa
- Protection on Mauritius IslandMauritiusMauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...
regarding the Mauritian flying foxMauritian flying foxThe Mauritian flying fox , also known as Greater Mascarene flying fox or Mauritius fruit bat is a large megabat species endemic to Mauritius and La Réunion.-Description:... - Education on the Island of RodriguesRodriguesRodrigues is a common surname in the Portuguese language. It was originally a Patronymic, meaning Son of Rodrigo or Son of Rui. The "es" signifies "son of". The name Rodrigo is the Portuguese form of Roderick, meaning "famous power" or "famous ruler", from the Germanic elements "hrod" and "ric" ,...
regarding the Rodrigues Flying FoxRodrigues Flying FoxThe Rodrigues Flying Fox or Rodrigues Fruit Bat is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae, the flying foxes or fruit bats. It is endemic to Rodrigues, an island in the Indian Ocean belonging to Mauritius. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests. It is a sociable species... - Protection of the Golden BatGolden BatThe Golden Bat, Mimon bennettii, is a bat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.-Conservancy:...
Australia
- Rescue project of the Australian Spectacled Flying-foxSpectacled Flying-foxThe Spectacled Flying Fox , is a megabat also known as the Spectacled Fruit Bat, lives in Australia's north-eastern west regions of Queensland...
Organization for Bat Conservation (OBC) is an nonprofit organization to further Bat Conservation. It is a conservationist
Conservationist
Conservationists are proponents or advocates of conservation. They advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment...
organization, founded by Rob Mies and Kim Williams in the late 1990s. OBC’s vision is to inspire a peaceful coexistence between bats and humans and to promote global participation in bat
Bat
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera "hand" and pteron "wing") whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, glide rather than fly,...
conservation. OBC accomplishes their vision through public education, wildlife management, conservation programs and habitat protection.
History
The Organization for Bat Conservation has the largest grass-roots bat conservation educational project in the United States. Each year, over 250,000 people attend a live bat program or visit the Bat Zone at Cranbrook Institute of Science. Every year, since 2002, the Organization for Bat Conservation hosts the Great Lakes Bat FestivalBat festival
The Great Lakes Bat Festival is an annual two-day summer event that started in 2002.1 It has been held at the Cranbrook Institute of Science Bat Zone in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan2, at the Indiana State University Center for North American Bat Research and Conservation in Terre Haute, Indiana3, at...
, it is largest annual bat festival
Bat festival
The Great Lakes Bat Festival is an annual two-day summer event that started in 2002.1 It has been held at the Cranbrook Institute of Science Bat Zone in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan2, at the Indiana State University Center for North American Bat Research and Conservation in Terre Haute, Indiana3, at...
in the Great Lakes region. OBC produces educational material including the award-winning video, “Bats the True Story,” books, posters and educational handouts. Books authored include the first bat field guide, “Beginner’s Guide to Bats”, and “Understanding Bats”.
The nonprofit Organization for Bat Conservation uses proceeds from educational programs, bat house sales, memberships and donations to house and feed all the rescued animals it cares for at the Bat Zone, and to further bat conservation efforts thought the U.S. and the world. Visit OBC on the Web at http://www.batconservation.org to read more about our current conservation efforts.
North America
- Supporting White-Nose FungusWhite nose syndromeWhite nose syndrome is a poorly understood disease associated with the deaths of more than a million bats. The condition, named for a distinctive fungal growth around the muzzles and on the wings of many affected animals, was first identified in a cave in Schoharie County, New York, USA, in...
research - Reducing wind farmWind farmA wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...
mortality - Bat house habitation success
- Land surveys for public and private land owner to identify roosts for protection
Africa
- Protection on Mauritius IslandMauritiusMauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...
regarding the Mauritian flying foxMauritian flying foxThe Mauritian flying fox , also known as Greater Mascarene flying fox or Mauritius fruit bat is a large megabat species endemic to Mauritius and La Réunion.-Description:... - Education on the Island of RodriguesRodriguesRodrigues is a common surname in the Portuguese language. It was originally a Patronymic, meaning Son of Rodrigo or Son of Rui. The "es" signifies "son of". The name Rodrigo is the Portuguese form of Roderick, meaning "famous power" or "famous ruler", from the Germanic elements "hrod" and "ric" ,...
regarding the Rodrigues Flying FoxRodrigues Flying FoxThe Rodrigues Flying Fox or Rodrigues Fruit Bat is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae, the flying foxes or fruit bats. It is endemic to Rodrigues, an island in the Indian Ocean belonging to Mauritius. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests. It is a sociable species... - Protection of the Golden BatGolden BatThe Golden Bat, Mimon bennettii, is a bat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.-Conservancy:...
Australia
- Rescue project of the Australian Spectacled Flying-foxSpectacled Flying-foxThe Spectacled Flying Fox , is a megabat also known as the Spectacled Fruit Bat, lives in Australia's north-eastern west regions of Queensland...
Organization for Bat Conservation (OBC) is an nonprofit organization to further Bat Conservation. It is a conservationist
Conservationist
Conservationists are proponents or advocates of conservation. They advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment...
organization, founded by Rob Mies and Kim Williams in the late 1990s. OBC’s vision is to inspire a peaceful coexistence between bats and humans and to promote global participation in bat
Bat
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera "hand" and pteron "wing") whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, glide rather than fly,...
conservation. OBC accomplishes their vision through public education, wildlife management, conservation programs and habitat protection.
History
The Organization for Bat Conservation has the largest grass-roots bat conservation educational project in the United States. Each year, over 250,000 people attend a live bat program or visit the Bat Zone at Cranbrook Institute of Science. Every year, since 2002, the Organization for Bat Conservation hosts the Great Lakes Bat FestivalBat festival
The Great Lakes Bat Festival is an annual two-day summer event that started in 2002.1 It has been held at the Cranbrook Institute of Science Bat Zone in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan2, at the Indiana State University Center for North American Bat Research and Conservation in Terre Haute, Indiana3, at...
, it is largest annual bat festival
Bat festival
The Great Lakes Bat Festival is an annual two-day summer event that started in 2002.1 It has been held at the Cranbrook Institute of Science Bat Zone in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan2, at the Indiana State University Center for North American Bat Research and Conservation in Terre Haute, Indiana3, at...
in the Great Lakes region. OBC produces educational material including the award-winning video, “Bats the True Story,” books, posters and educational handouts. Books authored include the first bat field guide, “Beginner’s Guide to Bats”, and “Understanding Bats”.
The nonprofit Organization for Bat Conservation uses proceeds from educational programs, bat house sales, memberships and donations to house and feed all the rescued animals it cares for at the Bat Zone, and to further bat conservation efforts thought the U.S. and the world. Visit OBC on the Web at http://www.batconservation.org to read more about our current conservation efforts.
North America
- Supporting White-Nose FungusWhite nose syndromeWhite nose syndrome is a poorly understood disease associated with the deaths of more than a million bats. The condition, named for a distinctive fungal growth around the muzzles and on the wings of many affected animals, was first identified in a cave in Schoharie County, New York, USA, in...
research - Reducing wind farmWind farmA wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...
mortality - Bat house habitation success
- Land surveys for public and private land owner to identify roosts for protection
Africa
- Protection on Mauritius IslandMauritiusMauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...
regarding the Mauritian flying foxMauritian flying foxThe Mauritian flying fox , also known as Greater Mascarene flying fox or Mauritius fruit bat is a large megabat species endemic to Mauritius and La Réunion.-Description:... - Education on the Island of RodriguesRodriguesRodrigues is a common surname in the Portuguese language. It was originally a Patronymic, meaning Son of Rodrigo or Son of Rui. The "es" signifies "son of". The name Rodrigo is the Portuguese form of Roderick, meaning "famous power" or "famous ruler", from the Germanic elements "hrod" and "ric" ,...
regarding the Rodrigues Flying FoxRodrigues Flying FoxThe Rodrigues Flying Fox or Rodrigues Fruit Bat is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae, the flying foxes or fruit bats. It is endemic to Rodrigues, an island in the Indian Ocean belonging to Mauritius. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests. It is a sociable species... - Protection of the Golden BatGolden BatThe Golden Bat, Mimon bennettii, is a bat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.-Conservancy:...