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28-09-2007, 12:08 AM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Shepshed, Leicestershire
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| |  Bat box info
Just been into the Gallery and was looking at a bat box, there was a note with the picture to the effect that, if the box became inhabited, a licence would needed to maintain it. Is this correct ? as I have just made one for a friend and would like to inform him just in case. |
28-09-2007, 12:47 AM
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| | | Re: Bat box info
Technically Yes....
Bats (amond other british wildlife) are in decline and have "protected" status. Its a bit of an odd one and has been bugging me too...Ill let someone like Gill come on and explain the situation?.
As they are protected you cant knowingly disturb or handle or harm them without a licence...so why then do garden centres sell or tv programmes encourage people to erect bat boxes? ( Obviously a good thing to provide more homes/habitats) but they dont usually mention once its got bats in you cant really touch it...(without a licence)
Its a similar one with Ponds....Im planning a wildlife pond....many people build them...but if your then lucky enough to have our endangered "protected" great crested newts move in your kind of a bit stuffed...as they technically have an exclusion zone around thier habitat that cant be disturbed or built on (not sure where gardening comes into it)...
Im not saying dont have bat boxes or build ponds...that would be devestating its just there are some funny laws that in the process of helping an endangered species you may cause yourself a few problems...
As i say ill let one of the "industry" people explain this one better.
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20-10-2007, 05:30 PM
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| | | Re: Bat box info
Bats are endangered,they generally have one offspring so the reproduction rate is low,they are nocturnal or crepuscular so disturbing a bats roost/box could leave them at the mercy of daytime predators,the law is strict to deter unnecessary interference
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21-10-2007, 07:52 PM
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| | | Re: Bat box info
Yes, once a bat box becomes used, you must not desturb them and you do need a licence to handle them, this also applys to dormouse boxes |
22-10-2007, 03:53 PM
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| | | Re: Bat box info
Thanks for the info. folks, I'll pass it on to the chap I made the box for, hopefully he will still put it up somewhere where it will not be disturbed.
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