Staff at Oregon Caves National Monument recently reported to Southern Oregon’s Mail Tribune.com that visitors are happy to follow decontamination protocols in order to help stave off the spread of …
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will be awarding grants totaling over $960,000 to go towards white-nose syndrome projects by thirty state natural resource organizations. The …
Recent research has revealed that bats that hibernate in dense clusters are being hit harder by white-nose syndrome. Biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz comparing bat species that …
The Cave Beach near Waverley in New Zealand is in need of new signage after it’s namesake “cave” finally collapsed last week. The iconic “cave” came down last Friday after …
Recent discoveries in caves beneath the Amazon jungle are causing a problem for a planned mining operation. Cavers exploring some of the estimated 1,000 caves in the area have discovered …
The state of Maine is asking residents and pest control companies to give bats a break this summer in order to help preserve their population in the wake of white …
After just reopening its caves to visitors, it has been announced that a bat at Iowa’s Maquoketa Caves State Park has tested positive for Geomyces destructans, the fungus that causes …
Council members in Ireland’s Clare County have ignored the advice to zone an area around an important bat cave as “open space”, and instead allowed it to be zoned as …
In an effort to try and slow the spread of white-nose syndrome, Tennessee has extended it’s closure of caves on state lands that began in 2009. The directive which closed …
Gibraltar’s Gorham’s Cave was recently given the nod by the U.K. government and formally submitted to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for world heritage status. Initially …
Submit your caving news and let the worldwide caving community know what you've been up to!
