What is the best way to catch a bat? 🦇 By the handle! 🏏 Happy #InternationalJokeDay! 😂 📸 𝘔𝘺𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘪 by Natalie Weber #JokeDay #ShareALaugh #Funny #BadJokes #OneLiners

What a wonderful #webinar last week by Dr Helen Taylor-Boyd! Thank you so much, Helen 🦇🇿🇲 If you missed it you can now watch it on YouTube - along with our previous 60 webinars! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JFS... #WingedWednesday #batconservation #Zambia

This #ChampionTuesday, we are celebrating the young advocates who attended the the Youth Climate Action Summit in Lusaka last month. BwB attended and the energy and grassroots passion at the summit were inspiring! ✨🌍⭐🌱💪 #youthleadership #youthvoices #SDG13

🌟 THIS WEEK! 🌟 Last chance to sign-up to Dr Helen Taylor Boyd's #WingedWednesday #webinar! 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html 📅 Wednesday 24 June 🕰 3pm SAST/CAT | 2pm BST | 9am EDT | #Zambia #batsinZambia #batconservation

🌟 1 week to go! 🌟 🔗 Sign-up here: www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html #WingedWednesday #webinar #bats #batconservation

Shoutout to all the wonderful Kalingalinga Primary School children in Lusaka who are loud and proud about saving bats and the planet this #ChampionTuesday! 📣 🦁 🦇 🌱 #ecokids #protectourplanet #environmentaleducation

@gbatnet.bsky.social want to hear your experiences with bat policy and legislation. 📋👇 Please complete our short survey below: www.batswithoutborders.org/gbn-bat-poli.... 📅 Closes 15 August 2026. 🗣️ Do share this survey with your network if you can 🙏 #batconservation

🌟 2 weeks to go! 🌟 We are really looking forward to our June #WingedWednesday #webinar with Dr Helen Taylor-Boyd! 📅 Wednesday 24 June 🕰 3pm SAST/CAT | 2pm BST | 9am EDT | 🌍 ⏰ Check your local timezone 😉 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html #bats #batconservation #Zambia

This #ChampionTuesday we are celebrating one of our partner schools in Lusaka - Chartonel Community Primary School - who now have 3 bat boxes on site 👏🏠🦇 The headteacher himself got involved and the whole installation was a fantastic team effort! #Conservationinaction #HabitatConnections #Lusaka

In case you missed Taonga Mwale's wonderful webinar last week, worry not - you can now watch it over on our YouTube channel. Taonga's was our 60th 🥳 #WingedWednesday webinar, so plenty more in the archives to rewatch too! #WednesdayWisdom #HabitatConnections #urbannature #Lusaka

📆 Date for the diary! Dr Helen Taylor-Boyd will be our next #WingedWednesday #webinar speaker 🦇 Helen's PhD focussed on Zambian bats and how they use agricultural landscapes. Helen is also a BwB Board Member, and has volunteered with us since 2014. 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html

🌟 TOMORROW! 🌟 Last chance to sign-up to Taonga Mwale's #WingedWednesday #webinar! 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html 📅 Wednesday 27 May 🕰 3pm SAST/CAT | 2pm BST | 9am EDT | #Lusaka #urbanconservation #HabitatConnections

🛍 Raise FREE #donations for us when you shop online 💳 at 6,000+ stores with Give as you Live. Plus, earn a bonus donation for bats 🦇 when you complete your first shop before 31st May! 🛒 Signing up is free, easy and quick: 🔗 www.giveasyoulive.com/join/bwb #everydaygiving #shopandraise

Did you know that the science of measurement helps us to conserve bats? 📏🦇 This #WorldMetrologyDay, we’re celebrating the precise tools that help us: ultrasonic detectors, anemometers, digital scales and thermal imaging cameras - just to name a few! #measurementmatters

🌟 1 week to go! 🌟 Our May #WingedWednesday #webinar by Taonga Mwale is next week! Taonga is a wildlife ecologist with a background in both conservation field research and eco-tourism. 📅 Wed 27 May 🕰 3pm SAST/CAT | 2pm BST | 9am EDT | 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html #urbannature #Lusaka

🌟 2 weeks to go! 🌟 In our May #WingedWednesday #webinar, Taonga Mwale will shine a torch on BwB's urban conservation work in Lusaka 🇿🇲 📅 Wed 27 May 🕰️ 3pm SAST | 2pm BST | 9am EDT | 🌍 ⏰ Remember to adjust for your local timezone 🔗 lnkd.in/eTsz5eyQ #HabitatConnections #urbannature #Lusaka

Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough! 🌍 📺 💚 🎥 🌿 Thank you for a lifetime of curiosity and dedication to the natural world. And most of all, thank you for inspiring so many of us to act. Kasanka straw-coloured fruit bat migration from 'Life': www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... #Attenborough100

Associate Professor Liam McGuire's #WingedWednesday webinar exploring bat migration last month was terrific! Catch up on our YouTube channel if you missed it or fancy a re-watch 😉 Our 58 previous webinars are there to peruse, too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbgM... #WednesdayWisdom #migration

Our next #WingedWednesday #webinar 🦇 is with Taonga Mwale, BwB's Habitat Connections Project Officer, based in Lusaka, Zambia 🇿🇲 to hear about our first urban conservation project, in partnership with BirdWatch Zambia. 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html #bats #urbanconservation #Zambia

Our #EarthRaise2026 campaign with #BigGive has now officially closed and our grand total is... 🥁🥁🥁 £5,350!!! 🙌 THANK YOU so much to our supporters and friends this past week, and always 🦇 #EarthRaise #batsinbuildings #targetsurpassed

Move aside, Batman! Meet Batmum - the REAL superhero! 🦸‍♀️ ✨ This #NationalSuperheroDay, show some love for the real Dark Knights! 🦇 Cartoon by Rohan Chakravarty, Green Humour

We have reached our target! 🎉 A huge thanks to everyone who has supported us with our #BigGive #EarthRaise campaign! 🙏 Although donations will no longer be doubled, you can still donate to our Bats in Buildings project 🦇🏘 until 12pm BST | 1pm SAST tomorrow: 🔗 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Day 3️⃣ of #BigGive #EarthRaise 🌍🦇 🔗 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... How YOU can help! 1. Consider donating to our Bats in Buildings project if you are able and see it DOUBLED for our Bats in Buildings project 🏠🦇 2. Share with colleagues and friends 🙏 #EarthRaise2026 #FundraisingFriday

Happy #WorldBookDay! 📚🌍 We’re #GoingAllIn for bats and the planet with our brand-new co-design book by a youth panel from Ndola Primary School! Drumroll for the title reveal please.. 🥁🥁🥁 'The Beat of a Thousand Wings’. 🦇 🚀 Official launch: 8 Sept 2026 Today we 🥳 these amazing young authors!

This #EarthDay, the theme #OurPowerOurPlanet reminds us that as we build a clean energy future, we must ensure it doesn’t come at the cost of our bats. How? -smarter siting -installing panels on disturbed land first -slowing turbine blades at peak bat activity times -early ecological assessments

🚀 #BigGive #EarthRaise is now live 💥 🔗 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... Donate this Earth Day to our Bats in Buildings project if you can and have it doubled for #batconservation, then share with colleagues and friends 🙏 #EarthRaise2026 #EarthDay2026 #bats

Bats don't need GPS - they have 3D sonic mapping! Bat echolocation has inspired sonar technology, robot navigation and the Ultracane™ for the visually impaired. Nature is the best inventor! 💥💡🚀 📸 Sally-Ann Hurry #WCID #WorldCreativityandInnovationDay #biomimicry

📣 TOMORROW at 12pm BST | 1pm SAST/CAT 📣 Donations will be doubled for 7 days! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... 🌟 Funds will go to Bats in Buildings - a community science programme to survey bats in the built environment across southern Africa. #BigGive #DonateNow #bats #batconservation

🌟 TOMORROW! 🌟 Last chance to sign-up to Liam McGuire's #WingedWednesday #webinar! 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html 📅 Wednesday 22 April 🕰 3pm SAST/CAT | 2pm BST | 9am EDT | 🌍⏰ Remember to adjust for your local time zone! 📸 Brock Fenton #bats #batconservation #migration #batmigration

📸 Laura Torrent, Sally-Ann Hurry, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Keith Bohannon, De Jong & Butynski and Stephanie McDougall #BatAppreciationDay #Bats #Batconservation

This #WorldArtDay why not book yourself onto our fun, hour-long bat drawing workshop at the end of the month! No previous artistic skills required, come along and try your hand at drawing southern African bats 🦇 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986416652... #naturedrawing #artworkshop #drawingclass

🌟 1 week to go! 🌟 The McGuire lab at the University of Waterloo, Canada, has been studying bat migration for years, and this talk will get into some of those stories. 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html 🌍 ⏰ Reminder that the clocks have changed for some! #bats #migration #batmigration

🌟 2 weeks to go! 🌟 We are looking forward to Associate Professor Liam McGuire's April #WingedWednesday #webinar! 📅 Wed 22 April 🕰 3pm SAST/CAT | 2pm BST | 9am EDT | 🌍 ⏰ Clocks will have changed for some so do remember to adjust for your local timezone 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html

#WorldHealthDay reminder: a healthy planet is the foundation of our health. Forests clean the air we breathe. Oceans provide food and regulate the climate. Soils grow what we eat. Freshwater sustains life. Protecting ecosystems means protecting people.

📣 We are delighted to share details of our event later this month about the Rufford Foundation Small Grants Programme. Join Simon Mickleburgh to learn more about the programme in this free online event. 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986627414.... See you there! 📝 🦇 #TuesdayTips #grantwriting

What can bats teach us about human health? Researchers are studying bat genomes 🧬 to understand bats' unique ability to fight viruses 🦠. Understanding bat health resilience could unlock new pathways for human medicine in inflammation and much more. #WorldHealthDay #StandWithScience #Immunology

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our #WingedWednesday webinar this week from Santiago Perea on 'Bioacoustics as Biodiversity Evidence: Strengths, Uncertainties and Global Applications.' You can catch up here: youtu.be/5Wm5w3gpHik?... #FridayFeeling #bioacoustics

Join us for our April #WingedWednesday #webinar with Liam McGuire, Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada. 🇨🇦 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html ⏰ Gentle reminder to check local timezones due to clock changes in some areas 😊 #bats #batconservation #migration

Happy #InternationalDayofHappiness! ☺️🦇🌿💛🌈 Protecting bats and their habitats improves human health and happiness by reducing stress and anxiety, restoring cognitive function, providing connection, strengthening immune systems and encouraging physical activity. 📸 Yvonne de Jong & Tom Butynski

Our habitat restoration at Lusaka Golf Club ⛳ has been progressing well 👏 The team have been reducing the invasive shrub species common lantana (Lantana camara). Special thanks to our dedicated team: Taonga, Mr Timothy, Costa, Bupe and Moses 🙏 #FridayFeeling #invasivespecies #Lusaka

🌟 1 week to go! 🌟 Our first #WingedWednesday #webinar of the year by Santiago Perea is just a week away! 📅 Wednesday 25th March 🕰️ 3pm SAST/CAT | 1pm GMT | 9am EDT | 🔗 lnkd.in/eTsz5eyQ 🌍 ⏰ Reminder to adjust for your local timezone 😉 #bats #batconservation #bioacoustics

🌟 Less than 2 weeks to go! 🌟 We can't wait for our first #WingedWednesday #webinar of the year with Santiago Perea! 📅 Wednesday 25th March 🕰 3pm SAST | 1pm GMT | 9am EDT | Sign-up here: 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html #webinar #bats #batconservation #bioacoustics

Restoring nature - together - for the benefit of people and the planet is what the #HabitatConnections project is all about! 🤝 @wwfzambia.bsky.social and Birdwatch Zambia with us at Lusaka Golf Club managing the invasive lantara with Uni of Zambia students last week. #invasiveplants

Let's encourage a spirit of generosity, collaboration and support this IWD! 🤗 🤝 💪 #GiveToGain #IWD #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay

This 💫 #ThrowbackThursday we are reflecting on it being a year since our last Women In Bat Science indaba! It was a hugely inspiring webinar with the Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks leaders. It is available to watch on our YouTube channel below: ▶️ youtu.be/9jOrONA8hJk?si=q-AwJ4_q5y5QOBki

🔜 Our first Winged Wednesday Webinar of 2026 is with Santiago Perea, a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 🇺🇸 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html 🌍 ⏰ Please note that the webinar is fixed at 3pm southern African standard time - friendly reminder to adjust for your local timezone

📍 Are you in #Lusaka? 🦜 Interested in urban wildlife? The Habitat Connections project, a collaboration between Bats without Borders and BirdWatch Zambia, is hosting a FREE bird walk this Friday 6am - 11am at Bonanza Golf Course ⛳ #Zambia #birds #birdwalk #livingthegreen #wildlifeonthecourse

Abigail Karimanzira, one of our 2023 bat group trainees, presented at the Women Conserving Southern Africa congress in Kasane, Botswana yesterday. Her talk was on promoting citizen science in bat conservation in Zimbabwe 🦇 #WCSA2026 #womeninconservation #womeninleadership #womeninwildlife

Need some inspiration for a batty Valentine's message this year? 💌 Well, look no further... 🦇 ❤️ 💌 'We're bat-ter together' 🦇 'My heart bats for you' 💌 'Guano be my Valentine?' 🦇 'Wanna hang?' 💌 'I'm batty for you' 🦇 'Let's hang out forever' 📸 Andy Price #valentine #valentinesday2026 #lovebats

🔜 ⏳ Just a few weeks now until our 2026 Winged Wednesday Webinars kick off 👏 ✏️ Please note the slight schedule change: Santiago Perea is now speaking on 25 March 2026. Webinars are 1hr long and always at 3pm southern African time To sign up for free, visit: www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars