White-nose syndrome has recently been discovered in bat populations hibernating in Fort Delaware State Park. While Delaware does not have typical hibernation sites such as mines and large caves, the …
The plan to install a system to discharge wastewater into a cave concerns local residents. A youth hostel has developed a plan to release treated wastewater at night during high …
Researchers studying bats at Missouri’s Sequiota Cave on Monday collected a number of samples from endangered gray bats that exhibited possible signs of white-nose syndrome. Although most of the 44 …
As part of an annual alternative spring break program, a group of Texas A&M University students spent their recent week off at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. During their time at …
White-nose syndrome has just been confirmed in Maine’s Acadia National Park after two bats found in the park this winter tested positive for the disease. Previously discovered in the state …
A Little Brown bat collected from Oak Blowhole cave in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains National Park has tested positive for Geomyces destructans, the fungus behind white-nose syndrome. The confirmation was …
Declining groundwater levels in south-western Australia may result in the extinction of the aquatic creatures that live within the areas caves. Recent research published in the Journal of Australasian Cave …
In the 1930’s around 1.7 million black-nest swiftlets called the caves of Malaysia’s Niah National Park home. Now only around 100,000 remain. The decrease is being attributed to harvesting the …
U.S. Senators Leahy, Cardin, and Lautenberg are hosting a briefing and discussion on white-nose syndrome next Thursday, March 22nd, 2012. The event will bring together leading experts on WNS who …
Alabama’s Cathedral Caverns State Park has started a project to convert its older incandescent lighting system in the cave with LED lighting. LEDs, or light-emitting diodes have many benefits over …
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