Wicklow Bat Group

31/12/2025

https://www.independent.co.uk/property/gardening/bats-garden-environment-expert-advice-b2891399.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPClNhjbGNrA8KUvGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHkNZ44gJFF2vgFpgPOO5ZwxVC68H6aXFAKiuFZXXeA6u7AtULod9dRrIUkTk_aem_KvYSk2zT0J5cX6zK73Noxw

How to attract bats into your garden and why they are so important

18/02/2025

We are delighted to officially launch our Gardening for Bats Project! Here is the recording from our event on 31st January 2025. Dr Niamh Roche was joined b...

01/11/2024

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23/09/2024

🦇BAT FACT FINDER🦇

❓Got a question about bats?
❓Need advice about bats living in your attic?
❓Found a bat?
❓Would you like to volunteer & train with us?
❓Want to know how we monitor bats in Ireland?
❓Need funding for a bat themed project?
❓Would you like to report a bat sighting?
❓Need information about bat surveys & licences?
❓Want to organise a free event for your community group?

👉Our new bat query directory will help answer all your questions & direct you to the right information quickly:

https://www.batconservationireland.org/bat-enquiries

07/02/2024

Time to grab your cameras and phones and get snapping your favourite waterbodies. Rivers, lakes, ponds, bogs. marshes, estuaries etc...there is lots to choose from. See below for more details 👇

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📣 ENTER NOW: My Favourite Waterbody photo competition 📸

In celebration of we are asking YOU to submit a pic of your favourite river/ lake/ beach/ estuary 💧

To be in with a chance of winning a €500 voucher for Powerscourt Hotel, Autograph Collection Resort and Spa in Co Wicklow !

We want to know what connects you to this special place and why you love it 💙

📅 Don’t delay, deadline for submissions is 5pm Friday 15th March 2024.

👉 To enter and for T&Cs visit: https://lawaters.ie/press-release-local-authority-waters-programme-launches-national-photography-competition/

29/01/2024

Ireland’s fourth National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP) was published on 25th of January, setting the biodiversity agenda for the 2023-2030 period.

The new NBAP is the first to be backed by legislation with legal requirements for public bodies, and seeks to respond to the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss. The five objectives of the plan include the adoption of a whole-of-government, whole-of-society approach; to meet urgent conservation and restoration needs; to secure nature’s contribution to people; to enhance the evidence base for biodiversity; and to strengthen Ireland’s contribution to international biodiversity initiatives.

Visit https://iwdg.ie/national-biodiversity-action-plan-published/ for details.

Ireland’s fourth National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP) was published this week, setting the biodiversity agenda for the 2023-2030 period. Launching the new plan Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Electoral Reform Malcolm Noonan said “Nature is in trouble, but I believe that it can rec...

08/01/2024

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Wicklow County Council has adopted a new five-year Climate Action Plan committing to providing leadership on Climate Action. The plan focuses on creating a low carbon climate resilient future for the county. The plan has actions across the themes of Governance, Buildings & Transport, Natural Environment & Green Infrastructure, Community Resilience & Transition and Sustainable Resource Management.

18/10/2023

🦇 'The extraordinary lifespans of bats could be under threat from rising global temperatures, according to new research.'

The extraordinary lifespans of bats could be under threat from rising global temperatures, according to new research.A study by researchers from University College Dublin and University of Bristol found that the hibernation cycle of a group of wild greater horseshoe bats affected by fluctuations in....

18/09/2023

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Conservationist Mary McGrath looks at Ireland’s indigenous species and the ways we can all help them survive.

12/08/2023

Out doing a Daubenton's survey last night. Nothing nicer than the sound of a river at night.

12/08/2023

Out doing a Daubenton's survey last night.