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Bats without Borders (BwB)
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BwB is dedicated to conserving bats, biodiversity and healthy ecosystems within southern Africa’s changing landscape.

Conservation | Applied Research | Capacity Strengthening | Engagement 🦇 🦇 🦇
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 🌍 💚
December 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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...
December 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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 🙏
December 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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...
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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
November 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🌟 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
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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
November 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
🌟 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
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Grant deadline - get in quick!
Attention researchers: apply by November 15th for the Q4 Wildlife Acoustics Grant and secure bioacoustics tools to conduct your 2026 research and conservation projects! #bioacoustics

Apply now: www.wildlifeacoustics.com/grant-program
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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/...
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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! 🦇
Helen Taylor-Boyd is fundraising for Bats without Borders
Make a donation and help me reach my fundraising target with Give as you Live Donate.
donate.giveasyoulive.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🌟 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
October 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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
October 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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
October 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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...
September 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🗣️ 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... 🦇
September 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Share your #EcoOopsies to give everyone a giggle and a chance to win a Song Meter Micro 2!
Fieldwork isn’t for the faint of heart, but it sure makes for great stories! Whether you’ve come face-to-face with a bear en route to a warbler nest, been bested by decoys, or triggered a guano avalanche inside a bat roost, we know you have a story to tell. #EcoOopsies

Tell us yours: bit.ly/3GDa14E
August 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Reposted by Bats without Borders (BwB)
🦇 These giant carnivorous bats hug, cuddle — and even share dinner: www.sciencenews.org/article/carn...
These giant carnivorous bats hug, cuddle — and even share dinner
Infrared cameras in Costa Rica revealed that the world’s largest carnivorous bat maintains close social bonds through wing wraps and prey sharing.
www.sciencenews.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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
August 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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...
August 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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
July 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM