Cut the lights – and seven more ways to save Britain’s bats

Lots of us aren’t very keen on bats. But the more we find out about them, the more amazing they turn out to beBats have a bad rep: in a recent survey by the Bat Conservation Trust (BCT), 46 of people expressed negative feelings about bats. But just look at them! Bat carer Liz Vinson, a volunteer with the BCT, calls them “little furry humans with huge jazz hands. They have individual characters: some are divas; some are bone idle.”Shirley Thompson, BCT’s honorary education officer, has been championing bats since the 1980s. “I still think they’re magic,” she says. “The more you find out about them, the more you realise what amazing creatures they are.” Continue reading...