Because in addition to controlling vast numbers of insect pests and pollinating many of the world's most valuable plants, bats are responsible for up to 95% of the seed dispersal essential to regeneration of tropical rain forests.
And without rain forests, the world's entire ecological balance would be destroyed.
However, die to people's fears and misconceptions, bats are being randomly and brutally exterminated. Many valuable species are endangered or already extinct.
Bat Conservation International (BCI) was founded to educate people worldwide about these intelligent, useful mammals. As a result, many important bat populations have been protected. But much more needs to be done. And BCI needs additional funding to implement many of its conservation projects.
Please help BCI by becoming a member and making a donation. ( As a BCI member you'll receive our quarterly publication, Bats.)
Please send your check or money order as soon as possible.
The bats' survival - and possibly your grandchildren's - depends on it.
Bat Conservation International
P.O. Box 162603, Austin, TX 78716
Telephone: 512- 327- 9721
