Bats: To Know Them is to Love Them

Gerri Griswold, Director of Administration and Development at The White Memorial Conservation Center in Litcfield gave a program on "Bats and the Environment" recently at Wisdom House. Gerri Griswold, Director of Administration and Development at The White Memorial Conservation Center in Litcfield gave a program on "Bats and the Environment" recently at Wisdom House. Participants learned about the crucial role bats play in the balance of our ecosystem. Ms. Griswold is a licensed wildlife rehabilitator for the State of Connecticut with a special emphasis on bats. Participants met "Theo," one of Ms. Griswold's bats, in the course of the program.

Gerri Griswold, licensed wildlife rehabilitator with special emphasis on bats, discusses the ecological importance of bats to human and natural survival. Gerri is Director of Administration and Development at The White Memorial Conservation Center in Litchfield, CT. See the Center's newsletter for Summer 2008 for more information about the present concern for the bat

population: www.whitememorialcc.org .

Wisdom House presented this program as an expression of its commitment to spirituality and the environment. Scripture says that Wisdom (the Divine) is found in nature and the cosmos (Wisdom 7:17-22). In this program, Gerri showed how even the smallest creatures are essential to God's creation.