Project Snapshot

Project title:

Help for Bats

Programme: Heritage Grants
Applicant: Bath and NE Somerset Council
Grant awarded: £178,500

The numbers of greater and lesser horseshoe bats in the UK have declined significantly in the last century, with an estimated [18,000–20,000] left, mainly in south-west England and south Wales. The bats are now a UK BAP priority species, and Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire Councils have teamed up with a number of partnership organisations to help boost conservation efforts in the West Country.

The lesser horseshot bat now a UK BAP priority species

Sector

Land and Biodiversity

Activity

Conservation; Participation; Learning