Now more than ever we urgently need your help! Your support is critical to help protect southern African bats.

Become a Friend of BwB for just £25 | €29 | $31 | ZAR576 for the year!
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Your funding will go directly to support conservation and engagement activities and strengthening in-country capacity for sustainable long-term bat conservation in southern Africa.

Please sign up by complete the following Friends form. Please select which gifts you would like to receive as a thank you from us!

Gifts include:

• a subscription to our quarterly e-Newsletter
• three eco-friendly (and vegan) stickers
• three eco-friendly postcards
• a digital certificate
• a downloadable bat themed ringtone

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And to celebrate the start of the new year, we have glow in the dark bat pin badges to give away to the first new Friends of BwB of 2024! (while stocks last). ​

Thanks to people like you, we are making positive steps to raise the profile of bats in southern Africa and fund research to improve our knowledge of bats across the subcontinent. Your funding will contribute towards out priority areas which over the next two years are:

• Education:
  • ​develop targeted resources suitable for southern Africa
  • provide freely accessible information about southern African bat species through our website and by partnering with environmental education organisations
  • raise awareness of the value of bats and threats they face.
• Capacity strengthening:
  • training and career development opportunities for in-country ecologists and conservationists
  • supporting bat groups in southern Africa
• Conservation advocacy:
  • establishing links with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to ensure bat cruelty cases are processed appropriately
  • strengthening links with other researchers and conservation organisations to work collaboratively to raise the profile of bats in the region
• Applied research:
  • promote and support conservation driven research to inform IUCN Redlist assessments and conservation action plans