Innovative mammal conservation

VWT Ireland

Innovative Mammal Conservation

Pine Martens, polecats and other carnivores

Greater and lesser horseshoe bats and other bats

Latest news

Marten recovery

The Back from the Brink project has confirmed the presence of a recovering pine marten population in northern England.

New funding

VWT has received £180,000 from the Green Recovery Challenge Fund to future-proof its bat reserves.

VWT’s 2020 newsletter has been published.

Highlights

Find out more about our work by reading short blogs written by staff, students and volunteers.

A new way to volunteer at VWT’s bat reserves

Volunteering in the time of COVID

Greater horseshoe bats in HD thermal infrared

Vincent Wildlife Trust is extremely grateful to Dr Ian Baker, of Leonardo UK Ltd, for his generosity in sharing his video of footage filmed for the BBC programme Inside the Bat Cave. This was filmed using thermal imaging cameras over a few weeks in the summer of 2019 and gives a unique view of greater horseshoe bats at one of VWT’s largest maternity roosts in Dorset. The video also includes footage filmed by Dr Liat Wicks. Inside the Bat Cave was first shown on BBC2 in October 2020 and is available on iPlayer until September 2021.

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7 May

Later this month, we will be checking den boxes in Wales for evidence of pine marten breeding. This video shows a marten kit born in a den box in mid Wales in 2016 to a female translocated from Scotland. Being born at height means they have to develop climbing skills quickly!

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