BATS WITHOUT BORDERS
  • Why bats
    • Bats and ecosystems
    • Threats to bats
    • Bats of southern Africa
  • About us
    • Our story
    • Our strategy
    • Our colony
    • Our Partners and Sponsors
    • Jobs / Volunteer
  • Our work
    • Applied research >
      • GBN bat policy questionnaire
    • Capacity strengthening >
      • Early Career Training
      • Bat Group Training
    • Conservation action >
      • Fruit bat monitoring in Malawi
      • Copperbelt Bats Project
    • Engagement and education
    • Events & Training >
      • Webinars
      • Past events
  • Our impact
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Business partnership opportunities
    • Fundraise for Bats
    • Kids Zone >
      • Classroom without Walls
WELCOME

We are Bats without Borders. Welcome to our website! Please explore our pages to find out more about the wonderful world of bats and the work we are doing to conserve them.

Bats without Borders is dedicated to conserving bats, biodiversity and healthy ecosystems within southern Africa’s changing landscape. We will achieve this by supporting and conducting applied research that informs targeted conservation action, strengthening local capacity and promoting a positive attitude towards bats through public engagement. 

Did you know?

There are over 1,420+ bat species globally? Accounting for ~20% of mammals worldwide. Africa has an incredible diversity of 300+ species, and across southern Africa we have 130+ species!

​Sadly, Africa is considered a bat conservation-void and bats are largely unprotected outside of protected areas. Habitat loss, land degradation and persecution are major threats to bat populations. We urgently need your help, like many other NGOs we are struggling to raise much needed funding, if you are in a position to make a donation or help us with fundraising we would really appreciate the support.
Now more than ever we urgently need your help! Your support is critical to help protect southern African bats. Like many small NGOs, we are struggling to operate and urgently need funding. You can either make a donation by clicking the link below, consider becoming a Friend of Bats without Borders or make a donation when joining some of our great events!

Your funding will go directly to support conservation and engagement activities as well as strengthening in-country capacity for sustainable long-term conservation.

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Now more than ever we urgently need your help! Your support is critical to help protect southern African bats. We are excited to have launched a new Friends of Bats without Borders initiative! 

Your funding will go directly to support conservation and engagement activities as well as strengthening in-country capacity for sustainable long-term conservation.

To find our more you can either send an e-mail to our info e-mail or if you would like to sign up please complete this Friends form.

Please consider supporting the work we do.

Your donation will go towards protecting bats in southern Africa, strengthening capacity of in-country ecologists and conservationists and helping us to raise the awareness of the importance of bats to communities and government authorities. Thank you!
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2023 African bat calendar

You can now order your 2023 bat calendar via our online shop.
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Women in Science symposium

Join us on 10th February for our FIRST Women in Science event!

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  • Why bats
    • Bats and ecosystems
    • Threats to bats
    • Bats of southern Africa
  • About us
    • Our story
    • Our strategy
    • Our colony
    • Our Partners and Sponsors
    • Jobs / Volunteer
  • Our work
    • Applied research >
      • GBN bat policy questionnaire
    • Capacity strengthening >
      • Early Career Training
      • Bat Group Training
    • Conservation action >
      • Fruit bat monitoring in Malawi
      • Copperbelt Bats Project
    • Engagement and education
    • Events & Training >
      • Webinars
      • Past events
  • Our impact
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Business partnership opportunities
    • Fundraise for Bats
    • Kids Zone >
      • Classroom without Walls