BATS are among the species which stand to gain from the reopening of the Rother Valley Railway (RVR).
Work on surveying bats began in August 2023.“We’ve carried out bat transect surveys once a month,”explained Giles Coe, RVR’s environmental expert.
“We’ve accompanied that with activity surveys for bats for which we’ve set out static monitors approximately every 500 metres along the route of the line. Those are left to record for five nights. We then investigate the data to see what bats are there and roughly what kind of abundance.”