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Craig Dunton, right, with harvested wildflower seed - Credit: Robbie Phillips Two new community groups for East Devon and the Blackdown Hills aim to support landowners and gardeners keen to restore or create wildflower meadows. The local More Meadows groups are based on the successful Moor Meadows Dartmoor community, which since its founding in 2015 has grown to include more than 800 meadow-makers, managing more than 1,000 acres of wildflower meadow to benefit wild plants and wildlife on Dartmo...

Police in the Highlands remind people of laws to protect bats By Louise Glen Published: 16:05, 25 February 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper A bat at night. Photo: Hugh Clark Police in the Highlands and Islands have turned the attention on bats as part of its year-long awareness raising of wildlife crime. Reminding people that all ten species of bats found in Scotland and the places in which they roost are pr...

Highlands police raise awareness of protections offered to bats under law By Louise Glen  |  Updated: 15:43, 25 February 2021 Get the Ross-shire Journal sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper A bat at night. Photo: Hugh Clark Police in the Highlands and Islands have turned the attention on bats as part of its year-long awareness raising of wildlife crime. Reminding people that all ten species of bats found in Scotland and the places in which t...

Wed 24 Feb 2021 05.30 EST Last modified on Mon 1 Mar 2021 10.24 EST Steve Latour and his wife were enjoying their usual early morning coffee in the sun outside their lake house in the Kootenay region of British Columbia when they heard noises coming from the bat box attached to the side of the house. Every summer, about 150 Yuma myotis bats return to the box, using it as a maternity colony to give birth to pups and take care of them until they are ready to leave for hibernation in the autumn. A...

0:38 Bat conservationists, biomedical engineers and NASA innovators are among the women highlighted in a new installation at Carnegie Science Center.  During a virtual event, science department program manager Michaela Williams said the installation includes the stories and accomplishments of seven women.  “Weve just learned a bit about some inspiring women in a variety of STEM fields from bat conservationists and biomedical engineers to sports medicine doctors and innovators at NASA,” Wi...

Last modified on Tue 16 Feb 2021 06.57 EST A group of leading environmental organisations are taking part in an employment initiative to make the green movement more diverse. Friends of the Earth, Client Earth, the RSPB and others will take part in a programme that aims to open up the environmental sector to young people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Just 3.5% of those who work in the environment sector identify as from a minority, according to research by Policy Exchange. The sector has be...

From staff reports PITTSBURGH — In celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Carnegie Science Center will unveil a new installation that honors influential women in S.T.E.M. during a Facebook Live at 10 a.m. Thursday. During the Facebook Live, science center staff members will introduce viewers to the seven women featured in the installation by describing their accomplishments in biomedical engineering, paleontology, sports medicine, conservation and a variety of o...

Special to Gannett The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is reminding property owners to check your home and other man-made structures for bats. If you find any, you still have time to exclude them before bat maternity season begins.  Bat maternity season is the time when bats gather to give birth and raise their young, and it runs from April 15 through Aug. 15. During this time, it is illegal to block bats from their roosts. If bats are excluded during maternity season, ...

FWC: Bats in your building? Now’s the time to check. Posted on The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is reminding property owners to check your home and other man-made structures for bats. If you find any, you still have time to exclude them before bat maternity season begins. Bat maternity season is the time when bats gather to give birth and raise their young, and it runs from April 15 through Aug. 15. During this time, it is illegal to block bats from their roosts. I...

Join this edition of Ask an Expert video series with Dr. Joy O’Keefe and PhD candidate Elizabeth Beilke as they share about their studies of bats on the Hardwood Ecosystem Experiment. The HEE is in its initial stages and is planned as a 100-year project. Data were collected for two years prior to the first round of timber harvests and inventories have been conducted annually since, allowing us to quantify the varied responses of plants and animals to active forest management. This data wil...