Project monitoring visit
One of the good practices of the LIFE programme is to support beneficiaries by organising monitoring visits. On 7-9 November, we were visited by Ms….
Bat platforms at Čechy pod Kosířem castle are ready
As part of the LIFE+ Podkowiec Towers project, bat platforms were installed in the attic of the castle Čechy pod Kosířem during the year 2023,…
Annual Team Meeting
LIFE+ Horseshoe Towers is an international project. Once a year, the teams implementing activities in each country meet live to discuss the progress of the…
The first Horseshoe Land Guides – our educator-animators have completed their training!
As part of the promotional activities of the LIFE+ Horseshoe Bat Towers project, a training course was held for the first group of trainees from…
Winged neighbours at Čechy pod Kosířem Chateau
The Čechy pod Kosířem castle has long been involved in the protection of the summer colony of the Lesser Horseshoe Bat, which uses the castle’s…
LIFE+ Podkowiec Towers meeting at Zdroje Forest District
On 14 September, the LIFE+ project Horseshoe Towers visited Polanica-Zdrój. Together with the General Directorate of State Forests, we organised a two-day organisational meeting. The…
Bats like the huts
Our forest bat huts are only just being built, but they have already found their first tenants! Less than two months after the installation of…
Forest bat huts nearing completion
Finishing the facades and the roofs of the last huts installed in the Zdroje and Bardo forest districts is underway. The huts are being outfitted…
Horseshoes in the hole
During our field work, we made an unusual discovery – a night shelter for horseshoe bats in the hollow of a huge beech tree! Horseshoe…
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,…