We're Hally Cokenias and Benjamin Largent and we love bats. We love other things too, but mostly bats.

Arizona is home to 29 species of bats that are spread throughout the state. Bats are key pollinators for cactus and agave and provide a wide range of pest control. The USGS states that bats save the agricultural industry billions of dollars per year. Around the world, bats are important pollinators and seed dispersers responsible for reforestation. Bats help to reduce dangerous mosquito populations and one bat in Arizona even eats scorpions! Bats are among our most important yet misunderstood wildlife neighbors. Once people understand how bats actually behave and what they do for the desert, a lot of the fear around them starts to fall away. We need bats and bats need us. 

In 2022, we were looking for a place to volunteer with bats. It turned out that there wasn’t a bat-only rescue in Arizona and only a few bat rehabbers. We worked to learn everything we could about bats and got training and hands-on experience from many different sources. Hally got licensed with Arizona Game & Fish to rehabilitate bats and Arizona Bat Rescue was born.

Arizona Bat Rescue takes in injured, ill, orphaned and displaced bats. Our mission is to give bats the specialized care and support they need to rest, heal, and get back to the wild. Through speaking engagements and events, we strive to teach everyone we can about how amazing (and adorable) bats are and all the ways people benefit from living with them. We have helped hundreds of bats and have taken in about 70% of Arizona's 29 species. 

Arizona Bat Rescue is a Non-profit, 501c3 charitable organization (EIN 93-1370547). We operate solely on private donations.