UBC Okanagan Students and a Peachland Conservation Group are Using Bats and Bugs to Build Community Conservation

In Peachland British Columbia, a local conservation group is turning the night sky into a classroom, inviting students and community members to study bats, insects, and the vital ecosystems they share.Peachland’s Bat Education and Ecological Protection Society, better known as BEEPS, leads the Nocturnal Bat and Insect Survey Project, a hands-on learning opportunity that’s using the magic of the nighttime world to spark curiosity, research and education. To learn more about this project, we spoke with collaborators Emma Gaudreau, president of BEEPS and Lily Liang, a UBC Okanagan student majoring in ecology, evolution and conservation in biology (Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science) and who also serves as the director of BEEPS.Visit our website here to learn more about the project and read the episode transcript: https://communityengagement.ubc.ca/news/ubc-okanagan-peachland-beeps-bat-survey-project/