Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife has submitted a bill that would see two bat species added to the state’s endangered species list.
January surveys of caves in Arkansas have discovered bats positive for white-nose syndrome in Independence County and Newton County caves while a third cave in McIlroy Madison County Wildlife Management Area was confirmed with Pseudogymnoascus destructans.
The recently approved Hamilton Conservation Authority management plan for Ontario’s Eramosa Karst feeder lands add trails and an interpretive station but leaves the area largely undisturbed.
The Dane County Humane Society wildlife rehabilitation center announced earlier this week that it has received the necessary permits to allow it to begin rehabilitating bats.
The latest white-nose syndrome map, released on March 4th, adds two confirmed counties, confirms one suspect county and adds another suspect county.
Los Angeles Times reporter John M. Glionna recently joined cavers at the Lehman Cave Lint Camp in Nevada’s Great Basin National Park.
White-nose syndrome, the fungal disease that has killed millions of bats in North America, has been discovered in four new Illinois counties.
Locals are concerned that a Australian-owned mining company’s plan to hollow out South Africa’s Madimatle Mountain in search of iron will damage the areas caves.
Come along on a visit to Gua Pinang, a bat cave in the Langkawi region of Malaysia, which sits in the vicinity of a massive quarry.
With its underground network of cracks and crevices, scientists are concerned that any potential leak in a karst area could lead to widespread and long-lasting environmental and safety repercussions.
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