On Wednesday October 9th, 2019, a workshop on Action Plans for selected habitats and species took place at the premises of the Ministry of Environment and Energy.
LIFE GRECABAT's first social message tells us about the importance and need to protect Greek caves.
In the context of LIFE GRECABAT actions and in particular the preparation of actions A3 and C3, we selected 230 of most important bat shelters in Greece (caves, mines, buildings etc.) as well as cave habitats of Directive 92/43/EU (8310: Caves not open to the public), to be proposed as protection sites by the under progress Special Environmental Studies and the accruing Management Plans.
LIFE GRECABAT's third social message about bats and ecosystem services they provide and stresses the need to protect them.
The largest bat colony in Greece and one of the most important winter colonies in Europe was discovered by researchers of LIFE GRECABAT program.
The discovery was recorded in the unvisited part of the Cave of Lakes, Kastria, Achaea, which hosts more than 18,000 common bent – wing bats (Miniopterus schreibersi) and nine additional species at different times of the year. This finding was made in collaboration with the Cave Management and Chelmos-Vouraikos Management Body.