Strawberry Vale Bat Helpers
Raised $110.00
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$4,360.00raised of $6,000.00
72.7%
Campaign Ended December 28, 2023
HAT’s Adopt-a-Bat program provides the opportunity to become a Bat Buddy! Get to know a local bat who also lives in your community. When you adopt a bat, you will receive:
Adopt 1 bat: $25
Adopt 3 bats: $60
Adopt a whole colony: $150
SYMBOLIC - You will not receive a live bat
What kind of bat can you adopt?
*Please note in the comments which species you would like to adopt
Sponsor a bat box for $150. Funds donated will build a bat box to be installed somewhere in the CRD. When you sponsor a bat box you will receive:
Bats play a vital role in maintaining healthy ecosystems by controlling insect populations, pollinating plants, and dispersing seeds. But sadly, bats are endangered. They are facing threats from habitat loss, pesticides, disease, and climate change.
Adopting a bat contributes to:
From October 24 to December 25, HAT will be providing the opportunity to become a Bat Buddy. Stay tuned to find out other fun ways to spread the word to your family and friends about the benefits of bats, including during Bat Week, October 24 to 31.
This is part of HAT’s commitment to the BC Community Bat Program. As the organization responsible for coordinating the Southern Vancouver Island chapter of the BC Community Bat Program, HAT aims to share information about the importance of bats and encourage residents to get to know these often misunderstood members of our ecological community.
If you’re looking to form a bat-focused band of friends, then consider adopting an entire colony for $150! Gather your friends and pitch in; fundraising together can support an entire family of bats in our local area.
Local businesses looking to support bats can adopt colonies as well. Pull together as staff members to sponsor a colony, or see if your business would be interested. Why not do both?
There are 9 bat species on Vancouver Island, and each of them faces threats from habitat loss, predation by cats, and the devastating disease White Nose Syndrome. More importantly, they have gained an unwarranted bad reputation.
Ignorance about bats and their role in the ecosystem is more dangerous than the loss of habitat to logging, development, and residential sprawl. The more we collectively know about bats, and the less stereotype and fear drive our relationship with them, the quicker bats will be safe in our community.
The better informed we humans are about bats, their needs, their lives, and the safe ways we can coexist, the better we can support will be in this region.
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