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The Agreement was concluded as "Agreement on the Conservation of Bats in Europe" in September 1991 during the Third Meeting of the Parties of the Convention on Migratory Species. It entered into force on 16 January 1994, after the required number of five states (Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and UK) had ratified it.
The first European Bat Nights were arranged in the 1990s in Poland and France. Since 1997 the Bat Night is organised under the auspices of the Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats (EUROBATS). Today the event takes place in several cities and regions in more than 30 countries throughout Europe.
Virginia Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are state-managed protected areas that exist primarily for the benefit of wildlife. Within the Commonwealth of Virginia , 46 tracts of land have been protected as WMAs, covering a total of over 216,000 acres (338 sq mi; 870 km 2 ).
Gray bat (Myotis grisescens) Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) Dismal Swamp southeastern shrew (Sorex longirostris fisheri) Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Big Woods Wildlife Management Area is a 4,173-acre (16.89 km 2 ) Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Sussex County, Virginia . It comprises two tracts of land; the 2,208-acre (8.94 km 2 ) main tract, located immediately adjacent Big Woods State Forest , and the 1,965-acre (7.95 km 2 ) Parker's ...
Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats; Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas; Convention establishing the Association of Caribbean States
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Saxis Wildlife Management Area is a 5,578-acre (22.57 km 2) Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Accomack County, Virginia. Predominantly tidal marshland, it is divided into three tracts, all located on peninsulas bordering on brackish waters such as Beasley Bay, Pocomoke Sound, and Messongo Creek. Several smaller freshwater creeks are also found ...