How to count them all?
At the end of June, we started counting bats in their breeding roosts in southern Poland. Bat roosts of species included in the LIFE+ Horseshoe…
Building support
In areas where new infrastructure is being built, we inform local communities about the purpose of the facilities in the forest. During these meetings, participants…
Locations for towers, huts and wintering grounds
In 2022, the project team designated two sites in the Lower Silesian Province, where the construction of new infrastructure for bats then began. This year,…
After the formal assessment
The LIFE+ Podkowiec Towers project offers the possibility of funding local activities to support the achievement of the main project objectives. The mechanism is available…
MCEE in Ciężkowice – a new attraction on the map of the Horseshoe Land
On 30 March 2023, there was an official opening of a new, interesting attraction on the map of the Horseshoe Bat Land: the Małopolskie Centre…
About bats in the Forest District Zdroje
The Zdroje Forest District is the first of the districts where a wider information and promotional campaign for the LIFE+ Horseshoe Bat Towers project has…
Visiting the horseshoe’s greater cousins
On 16-17 February, PTPP „pro Natura” Staff members visited a Bavarian LIFE-funded project protecting Germany’s last remaining greater horseshoe bat breeding colony (Grosse Hufeisennase in…
Completion of the first platform for bats at Ruda nad Moravou
Creation of the first of three wooden platforms planned within the LIFE+ Podkowiec Towers project, began at the end of October 2022 in the attic…
To be continued
Our project to create special houses for bats in the forests is only just getting under way, and we are already thinking about its continuation….
Training Horseshoe Land Educators-animators
On 26 November 2022, the inaugural training meeting of Horseshoe Bat Land educators-animators took place. The training aims to prepare people who will carry out…
Annual meeting and workshop
The LIFE+ Horseshoe Towers project is led by five partners from four countries, so the team meets regularly online and once a year we see…
These horseshoes are ours
To paraphrase a well-known saying, it could be said that all horseshoes are ours. But some more so. In Brenna, a few wing-beats away from…