How You Can Help
First off you can always support the work that CBC does by helping us fund bat conservation work: Support CBC
Climbers
Are you a climber and you’d like to help CBC and learn more about bats?
- If you are climbing and see bats, please let us know where you were, when you were climbing, what climb and route you were on, and where along your climb you saw bats. Please submit a sighting using our online form.
- If you have friends who climb, please spread the word about the CBC group. We would love to have more climbers looking for bats and sharing their knowledge with us.
- Are you interested in learning more about bats, please follow us on CBC Facebook or CBC Instagram, or visit our website CBC Homepage. It’s an opportunity for us to share the wonder of bats and interact with climbers.
Bat biologists and land managers
If you are a bat biologist or land manager and you’d like to work with climbers to understand bat ecology in your region, please contact us at [email protected] and we’ll share our techniques for collaborating. Climbers for Bat Conservation has prided itself on inviting climbers to roundtable discussions of why bat observations are so important for conservation, especially now as millions of bats are being lost to disease and other threats.
- If you’d like to host a “bat outing” with other biologists and climbers, shoot us an email ([email protected]) and we can help you coordinate, and, if need be, help you handle bats and discuss their ecology and natural history with the audience.
- If you’d like more information developing a local chapter of CBC, please email us or see our Toolbox below.
Engagement Toolbox
- The engagement process and the power of World Café
Climbers for Bat Conservation report (CBC Café Report Final 2021) - Café to Go: A quick reference guide for hosting World Cafe
- Dr. Shawn Davis ([email protected]) was the lead on CBC’s World Café process and is available to facilitate and provide feedback for future projects.