2024 Annual Report - Flipbook - Page 42
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Worked with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to install pup catchers
under bridges where hundreds of free-tail bat pups were falling. As well as being
mortally injured, some pups were being picked up by the public and taken home. The
pup catcher will allow babies who fall to land in a net and then crawl safely back up
to their roost.
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Prevented a colony of approximately 50 Mexican free-tailed bats from being exterminated while roos}ng in the foyer of a Texas school. The school agreed to perform a
humane exclusion while also blocking the entryway into the school, allow the students to use a di昀昀erent entryway into the school un}l all of the bats had exited the
building.
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Using our guidelines, bat rescuers in Bolivia began giving workshops in order to introduce their environmental and wildlife authori}es on bat rehabilita}on. Addi}onally,
our guidelines are being translated on proper handling, transporta}on, and ini}al
exams for bat rescuers.
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Helped in establishing humane euthanasia guidelines for the California Department
of Fish and Game for insec}vorous bats by elimina}ng the use of CO2, which is proven to be inhumane when used on insec}vorous bats. O
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Worked with Orkin Pest Control of North Carolina in saving bats that were roos}ng
inside the insula}on of a home. O
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Worked with a zoologist at Leningrad Zoo Park in Russia to encourage o昀케cials to
allow the rehabilita}on of insec}vorous bats.
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Worked with the sta昀昀 of a nature center in Missouri on a procedure to establish humane protocol for animal control o昀케cers who encounter bats. This e昀昀ort will enable
sta昀昀 to save a larger number of bats who would have been otherwise euthanized by
animal control.
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Par}cipated in a research project with West Environment and Sta}s}cal Consul}ng in
North Dakota that involved training scent dogs to locate bat roosts.
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Aided wildlife rehabilita}on centers and individual rescuers with guidance and supplies in 39 di昀昀erent states and 7 countries. This included mailing free rehabilita}on
supplies such as bat huts, pouches, medical supplies, live mealworms, and educa}onal literature.
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Assisted the public as well as bat rescuers to give aid to injured and orphaned bats in
Brazil, Thailand, Japan, Poland, Austria, China, Sri Lanka, Canada, Croa}a, Indonesia,
Bolivia, Spain, Mexico, Germany, Costa Rica, Greece, Spain, Italy, Vietnam, Columbia,
Russia, Cuba and France.
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Provided guidance and medical management to bat rescuers in Bolivia who were
experiencing dras}c and horrible wild昀椀res a昀昀ec}ng millions of hectares and animals,
including bats.
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