The Bat Rehabilitation Center organized a public event for the release of rescued bats into the wild. Bats were released at sunset.
by Lysychka-
The Bat Rehabilitation Center organized a public event for the release of rescued bats into the wild. Bats were released at sunset.
by Lysychka-
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Aliona Shulenko, Coordinator of the Bat Rehabilitation Center, shared that public bat releases had not been taking place since 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and later because of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
“About four thousand bats rescued during the winter have been released in Kharkiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, and Zaporizhzhia since March 24. We plan to release almost two and a half thousand in Kyiv and Poltava,” she said.
According to Aliona Shulenko, all 28 bat species living in Ukraine are endangered. To release a bat into nature, it must reach a certain weight. For pipistrelles, it is six grams, and for common bats and mouse-eared bats, it is 23 grams.
Each bat has a ring allowing for tracking and migration.
Kseniia and Oleh Lisnichuk take care of the bats in Kropyvnytskyi. They are the only official volunteers of the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Center in the Kropyvnytskyi region. Last year, they took in 150 animals for the season.
“We were able to release some of them almost immediately – their condition and weight allowed it, and the weather was favorable. The rest are being released today. We invited everyone who brought them to us,” she said.
Iryna Valiavska rescued one bat. “I saw it on the ground when I was coming home from work. I called Kseniia, but she was too far away. So, I decided to take the bat to her by taxi.”
Source:
https://suspilne.media/717924-u-kropivnickomu-vipustili-v-prirodu-sist-desatkiv-vratovanih-vzimku-kazaniv/
These must be part of the infamous genetically modified bat batallion.
Bats are super cool!
And no soup?
This is the example of real humanism! People think about even smallest animals. Endless kindness and responsibility.
Effort into saving bats ? Hate those things .
Disease man
ALL bat species in eastern Europe are on IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species, but it is Ukraine, not Russia, that has a dedicated research and rescue center to protect and educate the public about them. Footage from the Kharkiv bat centre was used to promote the conspiracy theory of biolabs in the invasion.