September 27, 2017

News

The Bat Association of MSU stands with Palestine

Like many other colonial projects, the establishment of the state of Israel started with the forced removal of the native population, an estimated 700,000 Palestinians in 1948. This was followed by an attempt to erase their history and culture, an event known to Palestinians as Al Nakba (The Catastrophe) [1] …
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Bat Association stands with MSU APIDA community

The Bat Association of MSU shares in the sadness and outrage at the recent racist and sexist violence perpetrated against the Asian American community in Atlanta Georgia on March 17th, which resulted in the tragic loss of the lives of Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Ae …
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Statement of Solidarity from Bat Association of MSU

Racism has deep roots in the United States. This country was built on stolen land through slave labor. It took a very violent war to bring about the end of slavery and this system was immediately replaced with incarceration and forced labor camps targeting former slaves. Jim Crow segregation continued …
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Bat Conservation at Michigan State University | Interview by Kelsi Kroll

Kelsi Kroll interviews Bat Association of MSU’s community outreach chair, Peter Fowler, on the groups ongoing work in Lansing and East Lansing, and the importance of bats and wildlife conservation in the One Health model …
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MSU Fall Bat Walks

Numerous times throughout the fall semester, the Bat Association of MSU (BAM) collaborated with the MSU Zoological Student Association and led evening Bat Walks with MSU students and the Lansing community. The tour began with a short presentation detailing Michigan’s nine bat species, and moved to the species inhabiting frequented …
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Collaboration with REACH

The Bat Association of MSU was really excited to be invited to do a Bat House Building workshop with the students at REACH Studio Art Center in ReoTown! With their help, we constructed 4 large, double chamber maternal bat boxes. Each box was made entirely from reclaimed cedar fencing, and …
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Bat Houses at the Big Green Gig

The Bat Association of MSU was lucky to be able to participate in the Earth Day Festival “The Big Green Gig” this weekend! We built 11 maternal bat boxes to give away, all out of reclaimed pallet wood, and were able to raise 90 dollars in donations to put up …
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Bat Association of MSU Launches Summer Volunteer Program

The Bat Association of MSU is excited to be working with Creature Control to launch our new Summer Volunteer Program! We will be building bat houses and helping exclude bat colonies from people’s homes. Through this project, we hope to progress our understanding of Lansing bat populations and their interactions …
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Bat Association of MSU Teams up with the MSU Zoologic Student Association

For Bat Appreciation Week 2018, we were really excited to team up with the MSU Zoological Student Association to help build bat houses for the community! Check out the video below of our preparation for the workshop and some of the shots from the workshop. If anybody wants a bat …
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Creature Control partners with the Bat Association of MSU

Creature Control has teamed up with the Bat Association of MSU in a collaborative effort to conserve bats and come to the aid of less fortunate struggling families in the Local Lansing Community while performing valuable research on Michigan bat populations. “The Bat Association of MSU is proud to announce …
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