Meet Reilly Jackson - the first ever recipient of BCI's Merlin D. Tuttle Bat Conservation Award!              

 BCI is proud to announce Matt Town as this year's recipient of the Verne and Marion Read Bat Conservation Award!              

BCI is looking for a Public Engagement Intern in our Austin, Tx. office. This position will be expected to work an average of 20-25 hours/week from March until September.

Singer James Brown may have once famously sung that it was a mans’ world, but in conservation, it is anyone's game.           

For Immediate Release: Wind turbine blades could decimate North America's most widespread bat species. 

Thousands of spinning wind turbine blades may be threatening the survival of the hoary bat - one of North America’s most widespread migratory bats.  BCI and the wind industry are striving together to find the right path forward to protect and preserve bats from this threat.

With its distinct salt-and-pepper coloration and luscious glossy fur, the hoary bat may just be the George Clooney of the bat world.    

Read how BCI research grantee Kristen Lear is working to investigate the potential for "bat-friendly" agave management by rural Mexican communities.