Conservation buildings project: Mouse-eared Bat refuge and species conservation building
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Conservation buildings project: Mouse-eared Bat refuge and species conservation building
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Location:
Hesse | Odenwald District | 64739 Höchst im Odenwald village district Mümling-Grumbach, Im Wolfsgrund 2
Completion/Inauguration:
June 2020
Previously: Disused railway station building and freight hall with the second-largest Mouse-eared Bat colony in Hesse © SPA
Now: Renovated railway station building for conservation of the colony of Mouse-eared Bat mothers and species conservation building (former freight hall) as a free-flight hall for bats and structure-dwelling bird species © Dirk A. Diehl
The plot and buildings are owned in equal parts by the Hesse Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society (HGON), Echzell and the Stiftung Pro Artenvielfalt, Bielefeld
Purchase of plot and station buildings, reconstruction and renovation of the listed buildings, electronic image transmission of the bat colony in the roof to the former waiting room, new power supply and the inner and outer reconstruction of the freight hall to a species conservation structure.
Investment by the Foundation as at the end of April 2021 = € 124,000.00
HGON, Echzell / Stiftung Pro Artenvielfalt, Bielefeld
Station buildings with Mouse-eared Bat colony in the roof
Species conservation building: Inside, free-flight hall for rehabilitation of bats nursed back to health before release into the wild. Outside, diverse nest boxes and breeding cavities, roost places and bat quarters
The second-largest Mouse-eared Bat mother colony in Hesse with up to 1,500 mother bats, House Martin colony, House and Tree Sparrow, Black Redstart, Pied Wagtail, and other bat species (summer and winter quarters)
Mouse-eared Bat nursery roost in roof © O. Schäfer
House Martin on the nest
© FotoNatur
House sparrow
© FotoNatur
Black Redstart
© Leo/fokus-natur
Pied Wagtail
© Leo/fokus-natur
Your donation enables the construction of more species conservation buildings for structure-dwelling wildlife species.
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