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The Farleigh Down Quarry, near Bathford. The Bath and Bradford-on-Avon Bats SAC is a Special Area of Conservation originally designated under the European Union's Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC), also known as the Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora.
The Devil's Sinkhole is a vertical natural bat habitat. The 40-by-60-foot (12.2 m × 18.3 m) opening drops down to reveal a cavern some 400 feet (122 m) below. While likely known to native peoples, the cavern was first discovered in modern times by Ammon Billings, a local rancher leading a scouting party of five, west of Hackberry Creek in ...
Bat World Sanctuary has been described as "the largest bat rescue center on the planet," with an estimated 100,000 Mexican free-tails inhabiting the wild sanctuary, plus a seasonal maternity colony of about 20,000 females who move in each spring. The Bat World Sanctuary facility holds about 400 non-releasable bats who live there permanently. [4]
Gotham Bat Conservancy; Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation; North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) NABat strives to "create a continent-wide program to monitor bats at local to rangewide scales that will provide reliable data to promote effective conservation decisionmaking and the long-term viability of bat populations across the continent."
An estimated 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats roost in the cave from March to October making it the largest known concentration of mammals. [ 1 ] The cave and undeveloped 1,521 acres (616 ha) around it are owned by Austin, Texas -based Bat Conservation International , which restores the land to support native vegetation and an abundant ...
Bat Conservation International (BCI) is an international nongovernmental organization working to conserve bats and their habitats through conservation, education, and research efforts. BCI was founded in 1982 by bat biologist Merlin Tuttle , who led the organization until his retirement in 2009. [ 2 ]
Millie Hill bat cave (also known as Millie Mine bat cave) is an abandoned iron mine in Iron Mountain, Michigan that is now one of the largest bat breeding colonies in North America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The vertical mine shaft is blocked by a steel grate, which prevents entry by humans but allows bats to enter and exit freely. [ 4 ]
The bridge was known as the Congress Avenue Bridge from the construction of the first span across the Colorado River at that location in the late 19th century until November 16, 2006, when the Austin City Council renamed the current bridge in honor of Ann W. Richards, the 45th Governor of Texas and a long-term resident of Austin.