Bats will benefit from lottery money to help them to recover lost territory and to reverse more than a century of decline.

Scientists believe that other species can best be helped in ways that would allow them to repopulate lost territory naturally.

The group's income has fallen by nearly a third in the past year as it has lost territory and its oilfields and cash stocks have been hit by coalition airstrikes.

However, rebel fighters claimed that they had countered it in the afternoon and retaken much of the lost territory.

In 1465, the hundred lost territory in the east and the meeting place became located on its fringe.