Grotte de la Chauve-Souris, Cave entrance in Vaucelles, Belgium.
Grotte de la Chauve-Souris is a cave in the Calestienne limestone massif of the Montagne de la Carrière, northeast of Vaucelles in the Belgian Ardennes. It consists mainly of a gallery about one hundred metres long and fifteen metres high, with secondary galleries.
The cave lies in the Montagne de la Carrière, a limestone massif of the Calestienne in the Belgian Ardennes, a few hundred metres from the French border. The Walloon Region signed an agreement with the municipality of Doische to classify it as a nature reserve and a site of great biological interest.
The name Chauve-Souris ("bat") refers to the cave's use by hibernating chiropterans, and the Walloon Region signed an agreement with the commune of Doische to classify it as a nature reserve and a site of great biological interest. Access is forbidden, so the site is experienced through this protection status rather than visits.
Access to the cave is forbidden, so it cannot be entered; the site is a chiropterological reserve. It lies northeast of Vaucelles, a few hundred metres from the French border and near the Joncquière valley, on the Montagne de la Carrière in the Calestienne. The Walloon Region signed an agreement with the commune of Doische to classify it as a nature reserve and a site of great biological interest.
The cave lies in the Montagne de la Carrière, a limestone massif of the Calestienne in the Belgian Ardennes, a few hundred metres from the French border. Wallonia signed an agreement with the commune of Doische to classify it as a nature reserve and a site of great biological interest.
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