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Bats without Borders (BwB)
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BwB is dedicated to conserving bats, biodiversity and healthy ecosystems within southern Africa’s changing landscape.

Conservation | Applied Research | Capacity Strengthening | Engagement 🦇 🦇 🦇
That feeling when you realise it’s Friday! 🦇💨

Flying into the weekend like.. 🦟🪰🥭🍌

Did you know some bats can eat thousands of insects in a single night? Talk about a midnight snack! 🤯

Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to find our own snacks. 😋

📸 Daniel Whitby

#FridayFeeling #bats #lovebats
February 6, 2026 at 2:03 PM
It is almost February and love is in the air!

Our #Lovebats range on Teemill is the perfect Valentine's gift for the bat-lover in your life 🦇 ❤️

Support Bats without Borders while you shop the collection:

bats-without-borders.teemill.com/collection/v...

#valentinesday2026 #sustainable #ethical
January 30, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Would you like to stay up-to-date with BwB?

Receive BwB news about our work in southern Africa instantly via our announcements-only WhatsApp group 🦇

Scan the QR code or click the link below to join:

🔗 chat.whatsapp.com/DnK43ya2yypD...
January 30, 2026 at 9:21 AM
🦇⛳ LUSAKA BAT WALKS 🔦🌙

Earlier this month, Taonga, Habitat Connections Project Officer, and Helen, Board Member, teamed up to deliver bat talks and walks at Bonanza Golf Course and Lusaka Golf Club.

The pair collaborated during Helen's Zambia visit from the UK and it was a roaring success! 👥💥
January 28, 2026 at 12:37 PM
This #ChampionTuesday, we are celebrating the wonderful trainers who have just completed their online Train the Trainer course on our environmental education programme, Classrooms without Walls 👏 🦇

🔗 If you would like to join the next batch of training, sign up here: forms.office.com/e/HMHp3wzV8C
January 27, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Today is #WorldEnvironmentalEducationDay 🌍 and we are celebrating 'the power of youth in co-creating education'.

2026 will see the launch of our co-design book about the migration of the straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) with Ndola Primary School in Zambia! 📖 🦇

Watch this space 👀
January 26, 2026 at 10:10 AM
THANK YOU wonderful supporters and friends! 🙏 🦇

You’ve just raised another £25 in FREE donations for Bats without Borders when shopping online by using Give as you Live!

If you haven’t signed up yet, get started today:

www.giveasyoulive.com/join/bwb?utm...
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 PM
📆 We are delighted to announce our first 2026 webinar dates!

Please note the webinars are 1 hr long and always at 3pm southern African time.

To sign up for free, visit: www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars

#WingedWednesday #webinar #batchat #lovebats #savebats #batconservation #bats
January 20, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Did you know, when you sign up to Give as you Live the retailers you shop with will make a donation to us for every purchase you make?

It's completely free, and the funds help us to keep protecting bats in southern Africa.

Sign up for us today!

www.giveasyoulive.com/charity/bwb
January 20, 2026 at 10:39 AM
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We have reached our target! 👏 🎉

Thank you so much to our supporters and friends 🦇

Your support will help deliver our Classrooms without
Walls environmental education programme to 500+
young people in southern Africa 🌍 💚
December 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
We are 80% of the way there!

Our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge closes tomorrow at 12noon (Tues 9 Dec). Please donate if you can to help us reach our £5,000 target 🙏

Donations are going to BwB's environmental education programme in southern Africa.

🔗 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
December 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It is day 4 of our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge!

We are getting closer to our £5,000 target!

Thank you again for your amazing support so far 🙏

🔗 lnkd.in/dCmGkSF5

#TheBigGive #ChristmasChallenge #doublethedifference #batswithoutborders #batconservation #bats #wildlife
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Our #ChristmasChallenge continues!

For one week only (Dec 2 -9) @biggive.bsky.social is doubling donations made to BwB! 🦇

🔗 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Your support will help deliver our environmental education programme, Classrooms without Walls, to 500+ young people in southern Africa 🙏
December 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Our #ChristmasChallenge is now live 💥

DOUBLE THE DIFFERENCE NOW!

From today #GivingTuesday, for one week only (Dec 2 - 9), Big Give will double donations made to our fundraising campaign. We're raising funds for our Classrooms without Walls programme 🦇

🔗 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025 is nearly here!

Money raised will go to our environmental education programme in southern Africa 🦇

Donations will be matched for 7 days from 2 December.

Use this link to donate from 12pm Tuesday:

donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... 🌟

#ChristmasChallenge
November 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Last weekend, Taonga, our Project Officer, attended the Zambian Art and Design Show at Ciela Resort and Spa, Bonanza Estate in Lusaka.

She exhibited alongside our partners, BirdWatch Zambia, to promote our Habitat Connections project 🦇 🦜 🐝

#Habitatconnections #batconservation #Zambia #Lusaka
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🌟 1 week to go! 🌟

Join us for our last #WingedWednesday #webinar of the year with Pipat Soisook!

📅 Wednesday 26th November
⏰ 3pm southern Africa | 1pm UK | 8am EDT

🌍⏰ Please note the time change for those in regions using DST.

🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html

📸 Pipat Soisook
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Let's be honest about our date plans this #SillySaturday.. Who is hoping for the other person to flake first?!

Why not turn to the animal kingdom for some excuses instead...

Cartoon by Rohan Chakravarty, Green Humour

#introvertlife #JOMO #relatable #needanexcuse #stayingin #Baturday
November 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
🌟 2 weeks to go! 🌟

#WingedWednesday #webinar with Pipat Soisook:
'Saving the Endemic Hipposideros pendlebury'

📅 Wednesday 26th November
⏰ 3pm southern Africa | 1pm UK | 8am EDT

🌍⏰ Please note time change for those in regions using DST

🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html

📸 Pipat Soisook
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Grant deadline - get in quick!
Attention researchers: apply by November 15th for the Q4 Wildlife Acoustics Grant and secure bioacoustics tools to conduct your 2026 research and conservation projects! #bioacoustics

Apply now: www.wildlifeacoustics.com/grant-program
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
You don’t need a lab coat to be a scientist! 🦇

This #WorldScienceDay, help us monitor fruit bats across southern #Africa.

Join our community science project today—use the #COREO app to record roosts— and make a real difference! 🌍

#CommunityScience #BatScience #AfricanBats #Conservation
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
COMING SOON... our November #wingedwednesday #webinar 🦇

🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html

⏰ *Please note* for those in regions with clock changes: the webinar remains at 3pm southern African time but will vary for others - for example, the UK is now 1pm

#bats #savebats #thailand
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Bats are not just for Halloween but it is a great time of
year to show support!

This Halloween, we challenge you to a Bat Match...

Donate what you spend on sweets and treats this year to Bats without Borders to help bat conservation in southern Africa:

donate.giveasyoulive.com/fundraising/...
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This #Halloween week, celebrate these symbols of Halloween by showing #bats some love 🧡🖤

Helen Taylor-Boyd is challenging you to match what you spend on sweets and treats this year with a donation to help real bats! 🦇
Helen Taylor-Boyd is fundraising for Bats without Borders
Make a donation and help me reach my fundraising target with Give as you Live Donate.
donate.giveasyoulive.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM