The LIFE GRECABAT team and the co-organizers decided to postpone the two-day conference on "Caves and underground life in the Municipality of Kalavrita: Towards an integrated protection and management". The conference was scheduled to take place on March 12 & 13, 2020 at the Cave of Lakes, Kastria and the Mansion of Paleologina in Kalavrita respectively.

The purpose of the action is to select and record quality and quantitative performance indicators of the project. These indicators can be used to report the success of LIFE GRECABAT (based on paragraph 3 of Article 3 of the Life Regulation).

This report presents the results of Action A1.1 (Inventory of bat species and their colonies at the project sites) the project LIFE GRECABAT (LIFE17 NAT / GR / 000522). More specifically, the findings of the visits to the project sites are presented and discussed in the light of the management needs that led to the proposal of the project but also the pressures and threats identified after the start of its implementation. From November 2019 to April 2020, 62 visits were made to the 13 sites of the program.

On Saturday 22 February 2020, LIFE GRECABAT, in collaboration with the Exhibition of the Natural History Museum of Crete, organized a Halloween event with talks and workshops with cave animal specimens, cave animal crafts and games....

Members of the LIFE GRECABAT team had the special opportunity to visit KETHEA ARIADNI in Heraklion, Crete. The visit took place on 31 January 2020, when scientists from the Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete and the Institute of Speleological Research of Greece spoke to the members of KETHEA ARIADNI about cave life and the natural history and ecology of bats.