{"id":5480,"date":"2012-03-15T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T12:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5480"},"modified":"2012-03-15T12:37:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T12:37:32","slug":"bats-and-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5480","title":{"rendered":"Bats and churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5482\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Julia-Hamner1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5482\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5482\" title=\"Julia Hamner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Julia-Hamner1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Julia-Hamner1.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Julia-Hamner1-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Bat Conservation Trust<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bats are common occupants of churches and in many cases peacefully coexist with parishioners. Recently there has been a lot in the press about the bat &#8221; problem&#8221; in churches.\u00a0 preventing people from being able to worship. Bat Conversation Trust&#8217;s CEO Juilia Hanmer has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/community\/ourwork\/b\/martinharper\/archive\/2012\/03\/14\/guest-blog-bats-in-the-firing-line.aspx\">guest blog on the RSPB <\/a>website. which explains clearly why the Habitats Directive is\u00a0 so important<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Next week we\u2019ll know if George Osborne will respond to the widespread evidence that the Habitat\u2019s Directive, far from being a burden to business, is a vital part of the mix needed to achieve sustainable development. Will he see sense? I hope so. Rather than attacking the Directives I would like to see the Chancellor focus on providing people with access to the expertise, information and evidence we need to implement it better.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_5483\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bat-church.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5483\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5483\" title=\"bat church\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bat-church.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo The Guardian<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>You can read more about BCT&#8217;s work with churches at\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bats.org.uk\/pages\/bats_in_churches.html\">http:\/\/www.bats.org.uk\/pages\/bats_in_churches.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bats are common occupants of churches and in many cases peacefully coexist with parishioners. Recently there has been a lot in the press about the bat &#8221; problem&#8221; in churches.\u00a0 preventing people from being able to worship. Bat Conversation Trust&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,162,163],"class_list":["post-5480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bat-conservation-trust","tag-bats-and-churches","tag-habitat-directive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5480"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}