Love bats? Travel to Rome for International Bat Night

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ITALY (eTN) – Attention bat lovers: the bat event of the year is scheduled for Friday, August 29, at 6:30 pm at the Cooperativa Sociale Parsec in Marcigliana Nature Reserve at Via Marcigliana, 532 in

ITALY (eTN) – Attention bat lovers: the bat event of the year is scheduled for Friday, August 29, at 6:30 pm at the Cooperativa Sociale Parsec in Marcigliana Nature Reserve at Via Marcigliana, 532 in Rome, in collaboration with the Regional Entity and Romanatura and Bats Protection voluntary association’s fund.

The International Bat Night program includes the release of several bats from the Centre for Wildlife Recovery Lipu of Rome into nature.

The meeting in Rome is included in the program of the 18th edition of ‘”International Bat Night UNEP/EUROBATS” which has taken place every year since 1997 in more than 30 European countries in the last weekend of August.

This event is designed to give the opportunity to the European organizations dealing with bats to spread news to the public about how bats live and their needs.

Live presentations, exhibitions, and outdoors walks will give the opportunity to listen to the sounds emitted by bats with the support of ultrasound technology known as the so-called bat-detector.

As for the evening program, included will be the freeing of handicapped bats rescued by people and delivered to the CRFS Lipu Rome center for their care and rehabilitation.

The newly-born bats brought to the center in June have been submitted to a rehabilitation program under the supervision of Dr. Alessandra Tomassini who handled breastfeeding, weaning, and flight testing in the aviary, necessary before being released into the wild, and not before the careful evaluation of each case.

This year, several bats were hospitalized. Italy counted 34 among the various species nestling in Italy: Pipistrellus kuhlii, Hypsugo savii, Pipistrellus pipistrellus, Pipistrellus pygmeus, Tadarida teniotis, and also Plecotus austriacus e Rhinolophus hipposideros. Not all species will be released on the occasion, since each one has different ecological requirements.

PROGRAM OF THE EVENING

6.30 pm – Appointment at the Cooperativa Sociale Parsec and presentation of the project for the preservation and recovery of debilitated bats which saw the construction of an aviary for the rehabilitation of bats made as part of a Memorandum of Understanding between Parsec, Bats, and Privacy RomaNatura.

Observations of the unrecoverable bats: Visitors will have the opportunity to have a close-up view of some of the species present in Italy, such as: Pipistrellus kuhlii, Hypsugo savii, teniotis Tadarida, and Eptesicus serotinus.

7:00 pm – Liberation into nature of bats from the Centre for Wildlife Recovery Lipu of Rome at the bat box, donated to the Parsec by the Privacy Bats Association.

7:30pm – Dr. Alessandra Tomassini, President of the Association of Volunteers of “Protection of Bats,” will allow guests to listen to the “voice” of bats through the use of bat detectors, and will answer questions from the audience and show individuals of different species of bats housed at the CRFS Lipu in Rome and at the aviary installed at Parsec.

8:30 pm – Aperitif

FREE ADMISSION, casual comfortable clothing is suggested (comfortable walking shoes in particular).

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