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The Wapiennik Łaskawy Kamień (The Benevolent Stone Lime kiln) in Stara Morawa and Polskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Przyrody “pro Natura” invite for the Bat Night event held on 27th of August in the Wapiennik.
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In Summer, attic dwelling bats are relatively easy to count. Data, collected at this time, bears a lot of indicative information (more…)

The Lesser horseshoe bats commute along the vegetation, rocks, and other objects. These landmarks, giving shelter and helping in orientation, are indispensable for their survival. (more…)

The Podkowiec+ belongs to the largest bat conservation projects in Europe. It becomes recognised and valued by bat researchers abroad. (more…)

On 14 and 15th of July, the project was visited by Ms Marta Kaczyńska, the Monitor on behalf of the European Commission. Besides screening of the project document, The Monitor was able to see some of the project sites and activities life. (more…)

In the Summer season, the horseshoe bats spend their time raising young. The males, however do not take part in family life, and have a lot of free time. (more…)

June, 18th, 2016, the Łaskawy kamień Lime-kiln in Stara Morawa, near Stronie Śląskie, celebrates the opening of the Chiropterium – a bat observatory. (more…)

At the junction of Nature and Culture seminar for PhD students took place in Niedzica castle, between 9th and 12th June. The seminar was organised by The Artes Liberales Department of the University of Warsaw, under the leadership of Professor Maria Poprzęcka, PhD. (more…)

Right now, in Beskidy Mts, the project staff checks flyways to the feeding grounds in the environs of about 20 maternity colonies. (more…)

Faculty Artes Liberales of the Warsaw University organised a seminar At the Junction of Nature and Culture, which will take place in Niedzica between 9th and 12th June 2016. (more…)

The horseshoe bats return to their summer roosts and … hit the tourist tracks. (more…)

During the rainy weekend in the Polish Pilots Park in Kraków, the Spring Picnic promoted the offbeat forms of tourism. The Klub Podróżników Śródziemie (Middle-Earth Wanderer Club) invited many other organisations to participate in this event and the questing field game (more…)

The old school building in Wojkowa, now serves two main groups of visitors. It is a village centre for the people and its attic is inhabited by the breeding colony of up to 60 Lesser horseshoe bat females. (more…)

New headquarters and visitor Centre of the Pieniny National Park has been built and after some time its attic was inhabited by some house bats (Eptesicus sp.). (more…)

In 2015, Mr Konrad Sachanowicz discovered a colony of the Lesser horseshoe bat in Bukowiec, Bieszczady Mts, that has not been known to bat researchers yet. There were ca 100 bats spread across the building owned by the State Forestry, Chapter in Baligród. (more…)