According to research published yesterday in the Nature, the international weekly journal of science, scientists have been able to offer the first conclusive evidence that the fungus Geomyces destructans causes …
The drought affecting Texas this summer is giving resident bats a hard time. The lack of moisture has depleted the insect population so that bats are having to depart early …
On Saturday, September 24th an article appeared in the Vail Daily News discussing White-nose syndrome. For whatever reason, a few details in the article were reported incorrectly, and cavers acted …
An environmental resource specialist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers charged with netting bats has noticed a continued decline of bats around Surry Mountain Dam. The bats began being …
This September 24th marks Iran’s second annual cave cleaning day. The event, which cooincides with the second day of seveth Persian month called Mehr (meaning kindness), will take place throughout …
On Saturday, October 15, 2011 Bat Conservation International will be holding a special half-day Bat Symposium at Chicago’s Field Museum entitled The Battle for Bats after a short documentary that …
According to cave biologists, many species of animals, millions of years old, could be wiped out by development in Croatia in advance of it joining the European Union. Recent research …
In order to protect the amazing formations found earlier this year in a new cave, the Grampian Speleological Group based in Edinburgh, has decided to keep the coordinates of the …
Last week Kalmanshellir cave in Iceland’s Hallmundarhraun lava field in Borgarfjörðurwas declared a nature reserve. First studied in 1993 during a joint Icelandic and American expedition led by caver Jay …
The Phillipine Government has announced funding for Bengaongao Cave in Ambongdolan. The local government of Tublay, will invest 800,000 Phillipine pesos (~19,000 USD) to improve the cave. This came after …
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