Vincent Wildlife Trust Blog
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The Vincent Wildlife Trust was founded by Vincent Weir in 1975 and has been supporting wildlife conservation ever since. It has been playing a key role in bat conservation in the Republic of Ireland since 1991. They currently focus on offering bat-related advice to the general public, local authorities, consultants, and professional groups. Wade through their blog and learn more about their..
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Citizen science is built into much of VWT’s conservation work on threatened mammals in Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe. It provides a way for anyone, regardless of experience and background, to get involved in the scientific process of research — at VWT, this is particularly through gathering information on the species we focus on. Citizen ..read more
Vincent Wildlife Trust Blog
8M ago
Generally, I quietly work behind the administrative scenes and am known more for my style (as in writing guidelines) than my natural science. However, I was drawn to the work of Vincent Wildlife Trust because of my fondness – call it obsession – for all-things Mustelidae. In January 1977, a second-year (Yr 8) form teacher ..read more
Vincent Wildlife Trust Blog
8M ago
Last year, I started my PhD at Sussex University in collaboration with Vincent Wildlife Trust, to study one of Britain’s rarest mammals, the barbastelle. Considered to be ‘near threatened’ by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, as well as being an Annex II species (meaning it has special areas of conservation designated to ..read more
Vincent Wildlife Trust Blog
8M ago
It is well known that bats are unique amongst mammals. Their ability to fly has allowed them to establish themselves in most continents and habitats, with the exception of Antarctica. Bats have also evolved a distinctive ability among land mammals to use echolocation as a tool for orientation. Both adaptations have allowed them to take ..read more
Vincent Wildlife Trust Blog
8M ago
VWT in Ireland undertakes what you might call a soul-searching exercise in the first quarter of every year. This has nothing to do with setting New Year’s resolutions but relates to our completing an annual application form to join the Irish Environmental Network (IEN). The IEN is an umbrella network that supports Irish environmental NGOs ..read more
Vincent Wildlife Trust Blog
8M ago
We are well aware that driving our cars around, perhaps in pre Covid-19 times, can have negative effects on the environment by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, reducing air quality, and increasing the likelihood of pollution in waterways; all of which can have significant effects on human health, but what about ..read more
Vincent Wildlife Trust Blog
8M ago
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery, VWT’s Back from the Brink (BftB) Pine Marten Project is facilitating and monitoring the natural recovery of the pine marten as it moves over the border from Scotland into northern England. Working with volunteers, landowners and land managers, we are surveying woodlands in Northumberland and Cumbria to collect information on ..read more
Vincent Wildlife Trust Blog
8M ago
It’s 3am on a Monday morning in June 2019, and I’m perched on a box in the cold dark of a small room, grateful for the many items of branded clothing I’d been issued with when I joined Vincent Wildlife Trust (VWT). I’m wearing them all now…and still I’m cold. I’m also struggling to keep ..read more
Vincent Wildlife Trust Blog
8M ago
The Trust owns seven buildings in County Kerry that held just under 2,000 adult lesser horseshoe bats in 2021. Nora Coffey and Kate McAney We rely on two long-term volunteers, Nora Coffey and Maire O’Connell, to conduct emergence counts at six of these each summer, between the last week of May and the first week ..read more
Vincent Wildlife Trust Blog
8M ago
But we couldn’t let her go without one final blog… What are your first memories of joining VWT? When I joined the Trust, VWT was embarking on a new project to search for evidence of any remaining pine marten populations in England and Wales. I cut my teeth looking for pine marten scats in forests ..read more