Welcome!

Bat Conservation Ireland is a Charity dedicated to the conservation of Ireland's bats. We promote conservation of bats by disseminating educational materials, giving talks and leading bat walks, carrying out nationwide surveys and monitoring of bats, acting as an umbrella group for the local bat groups and providing a central repository for bat records.

New office

Bat Conservation Ireland is delighted to announce that we have moved into a new office. Our new address and telephone contact details are:

BATLAS 2010

We are embarking on the BATLAS 2010 project this year, a project to find bats where they haven't yet been recorded in Ireland, so we will need your help! See the monitoring page for details.

Thank you!

A big THANK YOU! to everyone who volunteered for monitoring work in 2007, the Daubenton's Waterways Survey was a great success thanks to the contribution of hundreds of people around the country. If you are interested in participating in this important conservation work click on the monitoring link above.

Bat records online

The site now includes distribution maps from our online bat records database. This was initially developed with Grant Funding from The Heritage Council and has received further funding from The National Parks and Wildlife Service of Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government. See the data page for more information.