We undertook a unique survey in Parkhurst Forest during August and September 2018 to investigate the impact of the hardwood harvest on the Barbastelle bat activity. This involved an intensive survey schedule of over 20 individual surveys over the period.
We followed this up with a survey, with an identical protocol, to monitor the Barbastelle bat activity recovery in the harvested area of Parkhurst Forest during August and September 2019.
This research is published in our paper ‘Parkhurst Forest Selective Harvesting: Measured Impact on Bat Habitat Use‘.