Part of a mature hedgerow in the middle of the Hinkley Point C site, known as Green Lane, was removed in the early phase of the construction project. This meant that the local barbastelle bats were no longer able to use it as a navigation corridor to guide them to their feeding areas. Barbastelle bats are extremely rare and protected by law, so a "bat bridge" was constructed by the company Kier on the line of Green Lane, so that the bats could echolocate their way along it. A bat house was built to the south of the site to provide bats with a place to roost and hibernate.
Bat bridge viewed from outside the construction site, December 2016
Bat bridge at Hinkley Point
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