Objective
The project mainly focuses on urgent actions for the conservation of bats in the Castilla y León region. These include the protection of existing bat quarters and shelters and the creation of new ones in sites of Community interest, as well as the identification and description of new areas of interest for bats which could be included in the Natura 2000 network. In parallel, awareness campaigns aimed at the local community to convince them of the biological value of bats and their usefulness as insect-eaters, will be conducted.
Bats are amongst the most endangered groups of mammals on the European continent, to such an extent that over the past decades certain species have disappeared from large sections of their former range. The region of Castilla y León hosts 24 of the 25 species found on the Iberian Peninsula, all protected under national law, and ten of which are included in Annex II of the Habitats Directive. Although the general trend of bat populations is downward, there are considerable differences in the extent of scientific knowledge on the various species.
The principal threats to bat populations are the loss and degeneration of habitats and the risks inherent to the existence of small and fragmented populations. Habitat degeneration is mainly due to infrastructure works, direct human disturbance of colonies, forestry practices incompatible with bat conservation and environmental pollution, in particular from insecticides and herbicides which have a double impact on bat populations - reduction of available prey and toxicological effects from the accumulation of chemicals ingested by eating contaminated prey.
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47071 Valladolid
Spain
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