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- *Eight mines in southeast Norway were
monitored for hibernating bats in January and February. These mines have now
been checked every year for over 5 years, and monitoring will continue for
at least four more years.
- A bat rehabilitation centre was established during the
winter of 2000/2001. One parti-coloured and one northern bat, both females, were
cared for until they could be released in the spring. The rehabilitation centre is situated in the private home of a NZF bat group member in Oslo.
- One of our members represented Norway at the sixth meeting
of the Advisory Committee in Portugal in March.
- *A web site on bats (in Norwegian) was designed in the
spring of 2001. The site contains general information about bat
biology, threats and conservation, bat
group activities, contact addresses, what
to do when one finds a bat, a bat quiz for
children, identification keys, law
and regulations on bats and useful links.
The fact sheets about the bat species found
in Norway are enhanced with photographs,
hunting-behaviour drawings, sonograms, sound files and updated
distribution maps. The address is www.zoologi.no/flmus.
- In June bat boxes were installed at three different
localities in the Oslo municipality.
- *In July the group organised a four-day/night workshop with
15 participants, under the expert tutoring of Herman Limpens from the
Netherlands. The location was Tønsberg in Vestfold county, southeast Norway.
The program focused on finding colonies using bat detectors, as well as field
identification using bat detectors and other observation and search techniques.
Identification of bat sounds using computer programs was also
introduced.
- Group members surveyed parts of three poorly mapped counties
(Sogn og Fjordane, Oppland and Hedmark) for bats during spring and summer.
Financial support for this work was received from the county authorities. In Oslo municipality a section of
the river Ljanselva was surveyed on request from the local wildlife authorities.
- A mobile phone for the public to call with questions about
bat problems, reports of found injured or weak bats or general questions
about bats was established, and is operated by the group.
- *As part of the activities for the 5th European
Bat Night, local bat nights were held in 12 different towns throughout the
country in late August / early September. A
total of about 275 people participated in the events, of which quite a few were
children.
- Bat group members were frequently contacted by the media,
resulting in more than 25 articles and interviews in magazines and newspapers
and on radio and local TV channels.
- "Tragus", a national discussion group on the
Internet for bat enthusiasts in Norway, was established in the autumn.
- The group celebrated its 10th anniversary in Oslo in
November
- *A list of potential underground bat roosts in Norway was
compiled. The survey mainly contains information about caves and mines.
- *A folder on bats and forestry has been written and will be
published and distributed in 2002.
- The NRK, the national Norwegian broadcasting corporation,
filmed a 30-minute television program on bats and the group's activities
during The international year of the bat. The program was aired
in March and August 2002.
* Activities supported financially by the Norwegian
Directorate for Nature Management.
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