Bag Totes for Wildlife - Southern Bent-wing Bat

You buy a bag, we plant a tree, together we help save a species.

With your support, we’ve got conservation in the bag. The Southern Bent-wing Bat is a tiny yet mighty microbat, only 5-6cm long and weighing around 15-17 grams. Despite its tiny size, the bat can fly up to 150km a night, foraging and moving between caves. 

The Southern Bent-wing Bat persists across highly modified habitats that were largely wetlands and forests. This microbat is insectivorous and have a mighty appetite for moths, consuming 50-80% of their body weight in insects every night. With less plants and moths around, the bats need to fly huge distances each night just to find enough food to eat. 

Every bag sold will support Eastern Maar Traditional Owners to care for Southern Bent-wing Bat Country through planting native vegetation near important roosts in south-west Victoria. By providing more native plants to support the bat's primary food source - moths - we can help worth towards a healthy habitat and connected ecosystem for the bat to thrive!