A project to help one of Europe's most endangered bat species has been awarded £707,000 of National Lottery funding.
The Devon Greater Horseshoe Bat Project will restore habitats, protect 11 "priority roosts" and work with landowners.
Devon is the species stronghold, with a third of the UK's 6,500 bats found in the county, project organisers have said.
Funding has come from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The project is being led by the Devon Wildlife Trust in partnership with 18 organisations and the funding will allow the scheme to continue for the next five years.
Ed Parr Ferris, project manager, said: "The greater horseshoe bat is a species that has seen its European population crash in the last 100 years, and has disappeared from more than half its British range.
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