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

That feeling when you realise it’s Friday! 🦇💨 Flying into the weekend like.. 🦟🪰🥭🍌 Did you know some bats can eat thousands of insects in a single night? Talk about a midnight snack! 🤯 Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to find our own snacks. 😋 📸 Daniel Whitby #FridayFeeling #bats #lovebats

It is almost February and love is in the air! Our #Lovebats range on Teemill is the perfect Valentine's gift for the bat-lover in your life 🦇 ❤️ Support Bats without Borders while you shop the collection: bats-without-borders.teemill.com/collection/v... #valentinesday2026 #sustainable #ethical

Would you like to stay up-to-date with BwB? Receive BwB news about our work in southern Africa instantly via our announcements-only WhatsApp group 🦇 Scan the QR code or click the link below to join: 🔗 chat.whatsapp.com/DnK43ya2yypD...

This #ChampionTuesday, we are celebrating the wonderful trainers who have just completed their online Train the Trainer course on our environmental education programme, Classrooms without Walls 👏 🦇 🔗 If you would like to join the next batch of training, sign up here: forms.office.com/e/HMHp3wzV8C

Today is #WorldEnvironmentalEducationDay 🌍 and we are celebrating 'the power of youth in co-creating education'. 2026 will see the launch of our co-design book about the migration of the straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) with Ndola Primary School in Zambia! 📖 🦇 Watch this space 👀

THANK YOU wonderful supporters and friends! 🙏 🦇 You’ve just raised another £25 in FREE donations for Bats without Borders when shopping online by using Give as you Live! If you haven’t signed up yet, get started today: www.giveasyoulive.com/join/bwb?utm...

📆 We are delighted to announce our first 2026 webinar dates! Please note the webinars are 1 hr long and always at 3pm southern African time. To sign up for free, visit: www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars #WingedWednesday #webinar #batchat #lovebats #savebats #batconservation #bats

Did you know, when you sign up to Give as you Live the retailers you shop with will make a donation to us for every purchase you make? It's completely free, and the funds help us to keep protecting bats in southern Africa. Sign up for us today! www.giveasyoulive.com/charity/bwb

We have reached our target! 👏 🎉 Thank you so much to our supporters and friends 🦇 Your support will help deliver our Classrooms without Walls environmental education programme to 500+ young people in southern Africa 🌍 💚

We are 80% of the way there! Our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge closes tomorrow at 12noon (Tues 9 Dec). Please donate if you can to help us reach our £5,000 target 🙏 Donations are going to BwB's environmental education programme in southern Africa. 🔗 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

It is day 4 of our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge! We are getting closer to our £5,000 target! Thank you again for your amazing support so far 🙏 🔗 lnkd.in/dCmGkSF5 #TheBigGive #ChristmasChallenge #doublethedifference #batswithoutborders #batconservation #bats #wildlife

Our #ChristmasChallenge continues! For one week only (Dec 2 -9) @biggive.bsky.social is doubling donations made to BwB! 🦇 🔗 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... Your support will help deliver our environmental education programme, Classrooms without Walls, to 500+ young people in southern Africa 🙏

Our #ChristmasChallenge is now live 💥 DOUBLE THE DIFFERENCE NOW! From today #GivingTuesday, for one week only (Dec 2 - 9), Big Give will double donations made to our fundraising campaign. We're raising funds for our Classrooms without Walls programme 🦇 🔗 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025 is nearly here! Money raised will go to our environmental education programme in southern Africa 🦇 Donations will be matched for 7 days from 2 December. Use this link to donate from 12pm Tuesday: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... 🌟 #ChristmasChallenge

Last weekend, Taonga, our Project Officer, attended the Zambian Art and Design Show at Ciela Resort and Spa, Bonanza Estate in Lusaka. She exhibited alongside our partners, BirdWatch Zambia, to promote our Habitat Connections project 🦇 🦜 🐝 #Habitatconnections #batconservation #Zambia #Lusaka

🌟 1 week to go! 🌟 Join us for our last #WingedWednesday #webinar of the year with Pipat Soisook! 📅 Wednesday 26th November ⏰ 3pm southern Africa | 1pm UK | 8am EDT 🌍⏰ Please note the time change for those in regions using DST. 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html 📸 Pipat Soisook

Let's be honest about our date plans this #SillySaturday.. Who is hoping for the other person to flake first?! Why not turn to the animal kingdom for some excuses instead... Cartoon by Rohan Chakravarty, Green Humour #introvertlife #JOMO #relatable #needanexcuse #stayingin #Baturday

🌟 2 weeks to go! 🌟 #WingedWednesday #webinar with Pipat Soisook: 'Saving the Endemic Hipposideros pendlebury' 📅 Wednesday 26th November ⏰ 3pm southern Africa | 1pm UK | 8am EDT 🌍⏰ Please note time change for those in regions using DST 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html 📸 Pipat Soisook

Grant deadline - get in quick!

You don’t need a lab coat to be a scientist! 🦇 This #WorldScienceDay, help us monitor fruit bats across southern #Africa. Join our community science project today—use the #COREO app to record roosts— and make a real difference! 🌍 #CommunityScience #BatScience #AfricanBats #Conservation

COMING SOON... our November #wingedwednesday #webinar 🦇 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html ⏰ *Please note* for those in regions with clock changes: the webinar remains at 3pm southern African time but will vary for others - for example, the UK is now 1pm #bats #savebats #thailand

Bats are not just for Halloween but it is a great time of year to show support! This Halloween, we challenge you to a Bat Match... Donate what you spend on sweets and treats this year to Bats without Borders to help bat conservation in southern Africa: donate.giveasyoulive.com/fundraising/...

This #Halloween week, celebrate these symbols of Halloween by showing #bats some love 🧡🖤 Helen Taylor-Boyd is challenging you to match what you spend on sweets and treats this year with a donation to help real bats! 🦇

🌟 1 week to go! 🌟 We are looking forward to our #wingedwednesday #webinar about Laura Torrent's work on the taxonomy and ecological roles of bats in Equatorial Guinea! 📅 Wednesday 22nd October ⏰ 3pm southern Africa | 2pm UK | 9am EDT 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html 📸 Joxerra Aihartza

Don't forget about our upcoming #WingedWednesday #webinar with Laura Torrent on 22nd October! Time: 3pm southern Africa | 2pm UK | 9am EDT Sign up: www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html

COMING SOON... #WingedWednesday #webinar! On 22nd October, we are happy to host Laura Torrent's webinar: 'What have we learned about Equatorial Guinea's bats - and what remains a mystery?' Time: 3pm southern Africa | 2pm UK | 9am EDT Sign up: lnkd.in/eTsz5eyQ

Be a Bat Hero! 🦇 Next week on September 11th we are holding 2 more sessions, hosted by Helen Taylor Boyd, on how to become a community fundraiser for southern African bats! You can choose from a 2pm or 6pm slot. Sign up via EventBrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/bats-witho...

🗣️ ANNOUNCEMENT 🗣️ Postponement of Winged Wednesday Webinar 24th September Liam Maguire's webinar will not go ahead on the date previously advertised but we hope to reschedule the session in the coming weeks so keep an eye out 👀 for a new date and time... 🦇

Share your #EcoOopsies to give everyone a giggle and a chance to win a Song Meter Micro 2!

🦇 These giant carnivorous bats hug, cuddle — and even share dinner: www.sciencenews.org/article/carn...

COMING SOON... #WingedWednesday #webinar! 🦇 On 24th September, we’re delighted to host Liam Maguire to discuss the ecology and ecophysiology of bat migration 🦇 Time: 3pm southern Africa | 2pm UK | 9am EDT Sign up: www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html @batcon.org @batconservation.bsky.social

Be a #Bat Hero! Would you like to learn how to fundraise for bat conservation in southern Africa? Why not join us for an online event to find out more about community fundraising for us. There are 4 sessions across 2 dates - 21st August and 11th September. www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/bats-witho...

Join our next #WingedWednesday #webinar! 🦇 Delighted to host Cesária Victória Huó an early career professional from #Mozambique. Time: 3pm southern Africa | 2pm UK | 9am EDT Sign up: www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html #bats #vocalisation @batcon.org @batconservation.bsky.social

Excited for our #WingedWednesday webinar tomorrow! 🦇🌡️ Find out more and catch up on previous webinars, visit: www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html

NEXT WEDNESDAY Oli Aylen, will be the next speaker in our #WingedWednesday webinar series. 2pm southern African time (1pm GMT | 9am EDT) May 28th by 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html