Jersey Bat Group

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Hi All,
We have been invited to attend a meeting in Guernsey, on 2nd October, of all the Channel Island bat groups along with Laura Dunne from the BCT to discuss the BCT’s new relationship approach to bat groups. I will be attending, Kate Sharma and Ruari Allen may also be going with me.
If anyone has any discussion points they would like to raise with the other channel islands groups please let me know.

Thanks,

ani

The Jersey Bat Group

Presents a Winter Series of Bat Talks

The Mysterious Case of the Galapagos Bats

by Jill Key

Tuesday January 19^th 1.15pm – 1.45pm

Please join us at the Societe meeting Rooms (7 Pier Road)

 from 1pm for tea, biscuits and some Bat Chat,

Escape the mayhem of the January sales, get out of the cold and have your lunch with us!

For more information please contact us on: Jerseybatgroup@yahoo.co.uk

Just a quick Thank You to Ruari for doing the bat talk yesterday!

We had a fairly good turn out at lunch time but not so good in the evening so we have decided that we will only do lunch time talks from now on.

As December is likely to be a busy month for everyone the next talk will not be until Janaury, we will then have 2 in February and the last one in March. I will send out the dates and details as soon as they are all arranged and I hope to see some of you there!

There is currently a consultation period on the new Draft Island Plan, as part of the plan is concerned with biodiversity we, as the Jersey Bat Group, should make a response-particularily in support of enhancement of biodiversity.
The Draft Island Plan is available to read here

I have written an initial review of the plan which is attached to this post: Draft Island Plan review
Please read the document and post any comments below.
The consultation period ends on 18th December, therefore once everyone has had a chance for review and consultation the Bat Group reponse will be amended according to the overall consensus and then submitted to the States of Jersey before 18th December.

Thanks,

ani

To keep the group active over the winter I would like to organise some guest speakers. Rather than hiring in speakers from outside I would like the guest speaker to be JBG members. Some of you have had interesting, amazing and educational experiences working with bats so I think it’s about time we heard about them!
If you would like to be a guest speaker please let me know and I will get the meetings organised – this is also something that I think we could open up to the general public so we are going to need to organise some advertising, so if you don’t want to speak but do have marketing skills then I want to hear from you too!
Cheers,
ani

For anyone interested here is the report from the initial survey of Gas Place.

This is a pdf document so you will need acrobat reader to open it, acrobat is freely available on the internet so if you haven’t already got it have a look on google and Im sure you will be able to download it quickly and easily.

Gas Place survey report – Jersey Bats_FINAL_0909

Thank you to everyone who came to this evenings meeting.

We need volunteers for the following:

Roosters (training will be provided)
Rooster trainers
Fund Raising & Awareness Events Officer
Newsletter writer
Website Administrator (training will be provided)
To co-ordinate a mail out/meeting for tree surgeons, builders etc. in conjunction with the Env. Dept.

If you would like to volunteer for any of the roles please let me know!