Berlin Bat Meeting 🦇 2021

We warmly thank you all for your participation in the #6thIBBM. It has been a impressive meeting, sharing many great ideas & projects. Looking forward to see all (hopefully in person) next time!

Do you want to support bat #conservation research? Donations for students and researchers can be made here action.batcon.org/site/Donat… @BatConIntl

We are not done yet! At 9 am (CET) will start our post-conference #workshop on conservation marketing @verissimodiogo @ewanamacdonald #6thIBBM

Before wrapping up -> More about bats in art projects: Music: grrr.nu/?fbclid=IwAR03Hmbehb… Theater (Croatia): tragus.hr/wp-content/uploads… ...And more about citizen science projects: vigienature-ecole.fr/ (in French) #6thIBBM

.@JSPFroidevaux presenting his project on the impact of anthropogenic vs environmental factors on bat activity based #CitizenScience #6thIBBM

Quantifying the results of #WTimpact: Canopy cover, presence of water surfaces generally have a positive effect on #Berlin urban #bats habitat preferences & #Artificial light color affects differently the different species @D_Lewanzik #Citizenscience #6thIBBM

Spatial biases in sampling do not necessarily bias #bat population trend estimates @_EllaBrowning #6thIBBM

Passive bat acoustic monitoring by #citizens can produce large scale data & Online platforms help building reference libraries of #bat and other #wildlife species @NewsonStuart #6thIBBM

Long-term (15 years) bat acoustic #monitoring with an automatic classifier shows declining of some #bat species & With more reference data, auto id will further improve by Yves Bas #6thIBBM #CitizenScience

.@HeidiLBallard introduces the numerous benefits of democratizing science through #CitizenScience #6thIBBM

Last #6thIBBM session on Citizen science is starting now!

#Trinidad history of #rabies led to negative attitudes towards bats but #Trinidadbats project helped raising the voice for bat #conservation and was able to attract locals attention and educate them by Daniel Hargreaves #6thIBBM

#Marketing approaches tailored to local audiences & applied to bat #conservation can fuel behavioral changes @verissimodiogo #6thIBBM

Coming up @verissimodiogo introducing the next #6thIBBM session on conservation marketing!

#6thIBBM #shortpresentations ... Kati Souminen: #CitizenScience project on bat poop contributes to understand #bat ecology Finland @PointyTragus : #rescuing bats shifts people #attitudes from negative to positive See you after lunch!

#6thIBBM #shortpresentations Dave Johnston: #bat education in #Hawaii shows great #engagement & #interest by kids Ioanna Salvarina: Advertisement will attract even more #attention on #bat #CitizenScience projects #6thIBBM #shortpresentations ...

A new #6thIBBM session of short presentations coming now!

National park visitors show #positiveattitudes to comply #bat white-nose syndrome #preventative practices & they were mostly influenced by park staff actions than to other visitor behavior by Hannah Shapiro #6thIBBM

Would you sleep in the same room with a #bat? #Survey to high-school #students & legal guardians shows that #emotionally loaded attributes are more important than #knowledge @PiiaLundberg #6thIBBM