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Information, musings, and news about Bats

Lucy’s Wish List

We are developing several projects we’d like to launch/move forward with/finish. We could really use some equipment and/or supplies to keep us going. Our wish list is below, in no particular order… Education: Our current tabletop displays are falling apart. The display boards were donated or bought used and, after

Thank you and Happy Holidays

Please click our card below to read our year-end report. We had a bittersweet year; we said goodbye to too many of our older education bats, WNS continues to spread unabated, fruit bats are being targeted in Queensland, and the Christmas Island pipistrelle was declared extinct. But despite the sad things, we met amazing caring […]

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for our friends, even when they are practically picking our nose! We are truly thankful for all the people who make it possible for us to teach others about bats and white nose syndrome, for the volunteers who help take care of the bats, for the vets who help fix […]

One-day Bat Rehabilitation Workshop

Wildlife rescue, Inc has graciously agreed to co-host a one-day bat rehabilitation workshop at Sandy Bottom Nature Park in Hampton, VA. The date is Saturday, Dec 1, and the workshop meets from 9am--3pm. You can register by jumping to the Education Program tab at left. Open the flyer below for more details.

T-Shirts!!

Thanks to our wonderful and talented volunteer and veterinary care coordinator, Super Kim, we now have T-shirts for sale. Proceeds go to feed the bats, support our education programs, and pay the vet bills. Thanks for shopping! PLEASE NOTE: Because of extremely limited quantities and colors, contact us directly with your request. Shirts are $15.00 […]

Save the Bats! workshop

Please come see Save Lucy President, Leslie Sturges, at the kickoff presentation for the GMU Sustainability Institute and ReBuild's partnership workshop series. Register here.

Sad News for Bats

On Tuesday, the US Fish & Wildlife Service announced that 5.7 to 6.7 MILLION bats have died in northeastern North America since 2006. We are very sad to hear this news, but we believe that people who are willing to stand up for bats can help safeguard the remaining bat populations. Please do your part […]

NEBWG 2011

President Leslie Sturges and Board Member Vicki Windham are at the annual NEBWG meeting in Carlisle PA. There are over 100 biologists, state agency representatives, educators, researchers, and students here. Our friends from Speleobooks, Emily & Mike are here too. Please check out their store for lots of batty goodies and support a business that […]

A Huge Thank You redux

We were honored when Penn State Dickinson School of Law's Student Animal Legal Defense Fund included Save Lucy in their Year of the Bat fundraiser. They raised enough money to help subsidize adult education programs, purchase Lucy's Club incentives, or provide 4 months of mealworms for the education bats. However in our initial annoucement of […]

Holiday Greetings

Want to learn more about mid-Atlantic bats?

Please join us for Bats: The Only Flying Mammals December 14, 2001, 6:30pm-8:30pm Meadowside Nature Center, 5100 Meadowside Lane (located in Rock Creek Regional Park), Rockville, Maryland 20855 301-258-4030 Join Park Naturalist and bat

We Had a Sterling First Year

We are happy to present 'the year's almost over' report for our first year of operations. SL year end 2011B We are very, very happy with our first year. We just wish the fight against WNS was going so well. Please don't forget, WNS is still here and it's still moving. We need to keep […]