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Going to bat for misunderstood creatures Conifer based BatCREW helps bats, educates public BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
You could say members of Colorado BatCREW are batty — in a good way — about the winged creatures. The group of licensed wildlife rehabilitators and educators across Colorado are on a mission to help injured, sick or lost bats. In fact, CREW stands for conservation, rescue/rehabilitation, education and welfare. Colorado BatCREW is headquartered in the home of Conifer’s Kathy Estes, who started the nonprofit organization in 2010, and she figures the dozen volunteers get four to six calls a day about bats in the summer and about one a week in the winter. “The majority of people in BatCREW are doing transportation and taking calls and giving advice and
giving education programs,” Estes said. “There are a lot of different aspects of these animals that people don’t understand.” Colorado BatCREW just received a $2,000 grant from Colorado Parks & Wildlife for flight cages and equipment. Sometimes young bats fall as they learn to fly, sometimes they are injured by cats or wild animals, and other times, as they try to catch insects, they get trapped on sticky insect traps. Some are susceptible to fungi or get sick. Jim Guthrie, who oversees the grant program, says he is happy CPW can help groups like BatCREW because rehabilitating animals is a labor of love. “To have rehabilitators in the area to do the work to save animals is so valuable,” he said.
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This little brown bat got caught in a sticky fly trap and had to be cleaned before it was COURTESY PHOTO set free.
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