Northern Ireland Bat Group

Spring has sprung and with it, our wee furry babies have started emerging from hibernation! A bat was seen flying around Parkanaur Forest Park, Dungannon at 4pm during the day. Big thanks to Glenda Hall for spotting this and bringing it to our attention. Judging by the wing shape, size of the bat, distance between […]

Thanks to funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Northern Ireland Bat Group can offer free training for new volunteers to become: – Ambulance Drivers; – Licensed Bat Carers; and, – Bat Roost Visitors. An Ambulance driver’s duties will include answering phone calls from  members of the public who have found a bat, collecting bats […]

It’s been a crazy year for bat rescues and from what we have heard from other bat groups across the UK and Ireland this pattern isn’t just here in Northern Ireland. Lots of pups at the start of the season and some being born later. There were so many grounded juveniles who were underweight and […]

Our friends at Creggan Country Park secured funding and organised our first bat conference in the north west on Friday 6th March 2015.   120 people attended the event, which took place in the Drummond Hotel, Ballykelly. NIEA, representatives from councils and planners from across Northern Ireland attended as well as representatives from DOE, DARD, […]

    Ok so the weather isn’t great but on the bright side we have some exciting batty news! We will team up with our friends at Creggan Country Park to deliver the first ever Northern Ireland Bat Conference on Friday 6th March 2015 with the help of NIEA, Derry City and Strabane District Council, […]

We had a fantastic time at the Big Wild Campout with RSPB Northern Ireland in Cultra and Omagh. On Saturday past we joined our friends from Creggan Country Park to deliver a batty workshop at the Ulster American Folk Park. We were treated to a BBQ after setting up our tent, then went to get […]

One of our committee members showcased some of our work to the Environment Minister Mark H Durkan at Creggan Country Park on 20th August.   We were lucky to get some funding from the NIEA Challenge Fund over the past 2 years in partnership with our friends at Creggan Country Park.   Thanks to this […]

“Ambulance drivers” are vital to the work of the Northern Ireland Bat Group.  Part of the Northern Ireland Bat Group’s remit, in addition to education, training and advancement of knowledge, is caring for bats.  It is therefore, with great pleasure that we can announce that the Northern Ireland Bat Group in the North West now […]

We have been very busy over the past 6 months, delivering events and workshops across Northern Ireland including: Bats a Fact 15 primary schools in Derry, Strabane, Ballykelly and Omagh took part in our ‘Bats a Fact’ workshop funded by NIEA Challenge Fund 2014.  We created a batty cafe in each school and played lots […]