Glavni izbornik

Izdvojeni sadržaji

News

  27.08.2021, 13:51h


Bat Night 2021

International Bat Night has been celebrated since 1997 under the auspices of the Agreement on the Protection of European Bat Populations - EUROBATS, of which Croatia is a member.

Through the Bat Night event, with the slogan Give more for bats / I am a bat, not bad, the Krka National Park is trying point out the biological importance of theses only flying mammals and in this manner negate the prejudices that have been tied to bats. International Bat Night has been celebrated since 1997 under the auspices of the Agreement on the Protection of European Bat Populations - EUROBATS, of which Croatia is a member.

This year we will celebrate Bat Night "upside-down" - during the day. Due to the epidemiological situation, instead of an all-night event in Skradin, on Monday, 30 August, from 10 am to 6 pm, a "Bat Point" will be set up at Skradinski buk waterfall, where visitors will be educated about this species at the workshops.

Bats are an important part of world ecosystems and are indicators of a healthy environment. The importance of bats in nature is manifested in the biological control of the number of insects, along with pollination and spread of plant seeds. 

Bats, despite their positive role in nature, are an extremely vulnerable group of animals. In the last fifty years, total number of bat species has declined by 20% and 25% are endangered.

In Croatia, there are 35 species of bats. Seventeen of them have been noted in the Krka National Park, which is 48.6% of the total number of bats recorded in Croatia.