A batty new use for scrap tyres
ERJ staff report (DS)
Jersey, UK -- Conservationists at the Durrell wildlife park in Jersey, the Channel Islands, are building a tyre tunnel as a conservation project for bats.
The project involved upgrading the tunnel that previously housed the Livingstone's fruit bat using around 800 locally-sourced used tyres, which are being filled with earth and used to create the exterior wall of the new tunnel.
The new 'tyre tunnel' is the first sustainable building of its kind in Jersey and provides the perfect environmental conditions for the tropical Livingstone's fruit bat. As well as being a sustainable and energy efficient enclosure, the new tunnel also provides as near a natural habitat as possible for the bats, vastly improving their living environment.
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Press release from Durrell Park
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