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Cave Purchase Protects Jamaican Flower Bat
Now, BCI and partners are working to learn more about the bats, as well as collaborating with in-country partners to provide greater protection for the cave. Already, the team has completed a LiDAR scan to create a three-dimensional map of the cave and installed camera traps to monitor disturbance at the cave mouth. Further research will unveil even more about this elusive species and provide greater detail for the site’s management plan.
Working to Find Solutions in Texas
The team has offered advice on how to professionally and humanely exclude bats from the building, and to repair TDCJ-constructed bat houses to provide effective alternative roosting spots. TPWD will support the community by coordinating resources for professional bat exclusion and rehabilitation.
A Year of Adaptation and Discovery
Though our suitcases were home, we often continued to work with scholars around the globe, as well as partners closer to home. We assessed our missions, updated our programs, and gathered research to publish scientific papers. We set up new, strategically located hubs to collect data, refined our data collection methods, and made thousands of files available to our partners in the North American Bat Monitoring Program. We also continued to survey abandoned mines and plant agave corridors.
We’re calling it “2021: Year of Adaptation and Discovery,” a year of accomplishments we’re eager to share.
Celebrate International Bat Night
Join us in celebrating these magnificent mammals on Aug. 27 as we broadcast the nightly emergence of 20 million bats at Bracken Cave Preserve live on Facebook.