Date: 25th April 2015
Times: 09.30-22.00
Venue: Société Jersiaise, Pier Road, St Helier
The Jersey Bat Day event is a collaboration between the Department of the Environment and the Jersey Bat Group. The themes of this year’s day are ‘Bats and woodlands and bats and sound’.
Bats are an ideal indicator of the health of Jersey’s biodiversity as they are extremely long lived for their tiny size and slow to reproduce. This makes them vulnerable to a wide range of environmental impacts including those from building development which can affect the places they roost. They are also exposed to environmental pollutants both directly and through the food they eat, most local species feed mainly on airborne insects.
Speakers in the morning session will include:
Bob Cornes, Bedfordshire Bat Group and Trustee, Bat Conservation Trust
Annika Binet, Jersey Bat Group and Ecologist, Annika Binet Ecology
Nicky Brown, Chair, Jersey Bat Group
In the afternoon and evening there will be site visits:
14.30-16.30 at Val de la Mare to learn about how bats use woodland and the woodland bat box project with Miranda Collett, Jersey Bat Group and Trustee, Collett Trust for Endangered Species and Bob Cornes.
19.30-22.00 there will be a roost emergence survey at a property in Trinity (details to be confirmed at lunch) with Annika Binet and Bob Cornes.
A full programme of the event can be downloaded here
To book a place, please contact Henry Glynn by telephone: 441618 or by email h.glynn@gov.je
