Links and resources to help you find out more....

Click on the following links for more information about bats, educational resources, bat survey equipment, bat groups, survey standards, international and national bat or wildlife organisations.

Please let us know if you think we should include any additional websites or links to other bat interest groups

Bat interest groups

Africa (South Africa)

• Gauteng & Northern Regions Bat Interest Group (GNoRBIG)
• The bat interest group of KwaZulu Natal

If you know of any other bat interest groups in Africa please contact us to let us know.

Rest of the world

• Bat Conservation Ireland 
• Bat Malaysian Bat Conservation Research Unit
• Central Scottish Bat Group - Scotland
• Cork County Bat Group - Republic of Ireland
• Bat Conservation Trust - Local groups in UK
• Lincolnshire Bat Group - England
• Nothern Ireland Bat Group
• South Nottinghamshire Bat Group - England
• The Tennessee Bat Diversity Network
• The Southeastern Bat Diversity Network
• The Alabama Bat Working Group
• Vincent Wildlife Trust - Wales

FACEBOOK GROUPS

• Bat Conservation International - US
• Bat Conservation Trust - UK
• UK Bat Workers forum

Books

• Bats: from Evolution to Conservation
• Bats of Britain, Europe and Northwest Africa
• Bats of Southern and Central Africa
• Bats of the World
• Ecological and Behavioural Methods for Studying Bats
• Mammals of Africa
• The Bat House Builder's Handbook

Data sources

Africa (South Africa)

• AfriBats - citizen-science project for people to add their records and bat photos
• AfricanBats - including the annual African Chiroptera report

Museums

• Botswana National Museum (Botswana)
• Durban Natural Science Museum (KwaZulu Natal, SA)
• DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History (Pretoria, SA)
• Livingstone Museum (Zambia)
• National Museums of Kenya
• (Northern Cape, South Africa)

International

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• US Geological Survey - Bar Rese

Museums

• Harrison Institute (UK)

Educational resources

Africa

• Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) - Eco stars

Rest of the world

• Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) - UK based
• Bat Conservation International (BCI) - US based
• UNEP/Eurobats - Europe wide 

Equipment information

Bat detectors

• Avinet - mist nets and other equipment
• BatBox - Batbox duet
• Bat Conservation and Management - harp traps, mist nets and other equipment
• Bat Planet - bat monitoring equipment
• Ecotone - mist nets and other equipment
• Ecotone (South Africa) - mist nets and other equipment
• Faunatech - Austbat harp trap and other equipment
• Pettersson - range of bat detectors and ultrasound software
• Titley Scientific - Anabat detectors and analook software
• Wildlife Acoustics - echometer

Other equipment

• Avinet - mist nets
• Bat Planet - bat monitoring equipment
• Ecotone - mist nets
• Faunatech - austbat harp trap and other equipment
• Lotek - tracking equipment
• NHBS - range of surveying equipment
• Wildcare - range of surveying equipment

Survey standards

Africa

• South African Good Practice Guidelines for Surveying Bats in Wind Farm Development

Rest of the world

• Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) - UK based
• iBats - UK based working worldwide

Bat conservation organisations

Africa

• AfriBats - citizen-science project for people to add their records and bat photos
• AfricanBats - based in South Africa working on African bats
• African Bat Conservation (ABC) - Malawi and Zambia
• Bat Conservation Africa (BCA) - Africa wide

Rest of the world

• Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) - UK based

• Bat Conservation International (BCI) - US based
• Bat Conservation Ireland - Republic of Ireland
• Bat-Life Europe
• Bats of South East Asia
• iBats - UK based working worldwide
• Eurobats
• IUCN - Bat Specialist Group 
• Lubee Bat Conservancy - US based
• RELCOM - Latin America
• South East Asia Bat Conservation Research Unit
• UNEP/Eurobats
• Year of the Bat

Other conservation organisations

Africa

• Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT)
• Madagasikara Voakajy (Madagascar)
• Namibian Environment & Wildlife Society (NEWS)
• Rare & Endangered Species Trust (REST)
• Society for the Conservation of Nature in Liberia
• South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)
• World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - Namibia
• World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - South Africa

International

• European Wildlife
• Fauna and Flora International
• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
• Scottish Natural Heritage - Scotland
• The Nature Conservancy - North America
• The Nature Conservancy - Central America
• The Nature Conservancy - South America
• Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
• World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Research groups

Institutes in Africa

• Karatina University College (Kenya)
• Makerere University (Uganda)
• The Copperbelt University (Zambia)
• University of Benin (Nigeria)
• University of Cape Town (SA)
• University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
• University of Jaba (South Sudan)
• University of KwaZulu Natal (SA)
• University of Maroua (Cameroon)
• University of Namibia (Namibia)
• University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
• University of Pretoria (SA)
• University of Stellenbosch (SA)
• University of Swaziland (Swaziland)
• University of Venda (SA)
• University of Witwatersrand (Wits - SA)

Institutes around the rest of the world

• University of Bristol

• University of Stirling and Bristol (UK)
• University of Ulm (Germany)

African Bat videos, news and information

Bat Conservation Africa (BCA) is launched!

Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife - article about bats 


Videos

Find out more about the Largest fruit bat roost in the world - Kazanka National Park (Zambia) 

Learn about Bracken Cave - home to the largest congregation of mammals in the world!

Battle for Bats - find out white-nose syndrome (WNS), a poorly understood and devastating disease that has been killing millions bats in North America. WNS was first discovered to be killing bats in February 2006. Find out more.