National Parks - Greater Mouse Eared Bat

National Parks first day cover featuring the five 1st class National Parks stamps; Dartmoor, New Forest, Lake District, Loch Lomond and Snowdonia. Celebrating 70 years of the UK's first National Parks.

Produced in association with the Bat Conservation Trust, includes first day of issue Batley, West Yorkshire postmark 14.01.2021. Design features the Greater mouse-eared bat.

The greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis), the largest bat that occurs in Britain. The past 35 years have seen very few records of this species, it was declared extinct in the UK in 1990 but one returned. However, the last remaining recorded bat of this species has been missing for the last year and sadly pressumed extinct.