This project is designed to aid in the conservation of bats. This site is intended to serve as a clearing house for wildlife rehabilitators who treat bats. With so many cryptic species of bat, providing a network where rehaber's can post photographs of the bats they admit may help correctly identify the species admitted to rehabilitation facilities. Wildlife rehabilitators vary in their experience with this diverse assemblage of mammals, and the hope is that experienced rehaber's can aid in the correct identification of species.

Additionally this project is intended to provide an avenue to track local relative abundance of bat species, and potentially identify any trends in the reasons bats are being admitted to hospitals for. In the long term, this project may be able to serve as long term data set to help inform policy for the conservation of Western bats. less ↑