Posts Tagged ‘WNS’
The latest issue of National Geographic has a short but interesting article on the continuing crises haunting the population of hibernating bats. The article “Bat Crash” by David Quammen, and an accompanying photo gallery, is available online via the magazine website. The article webpage also offers a video of how photographer Stephen Alvarez photographed a [...]
Tags: bats, Geomyces destructans, National Geographic, white nose syndrome, WNS
It looks like things are going to get worse before they get better when it comes to bats and the fungal scourge of white nose syndrome (WNS). Over the past month there has been steady production of web updates on the spread of the disease and recently there has been an uptick. What Can Be [...]
Tags: bats, white nose syndrome, WNS
The Center for Biological Diversity published a press release today outlining a proposal to close all caves to protect bats from a perceived impending collapse of bat populations brought on by the fungal disease, bat white nose syndrome (WNS). Emergency Petitions Filed to Close Caves and Save Bats From Extinction The Center for Biological Diversity [...]
Tags: bats, caves, Center for Biological Diversity, WNS
An article by David DeFranza appearing a treehugger.com, European Bats Resistant to Deadly Fungus, discusses reports indicating that European bats are more resistant to white nose syndrome (WNS) than North American bats. Currently, reports from eight countries in Europe have described bats with white mold on their wings and muzzles and four countries—Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, [...]
Tags: bats, Europe, Geomyces destructans, WNS
Google news lists 199 recent articles about bat white nose syndrome (WNS)! Often that will happen when some new finding or announcement is made and then a whole bunch of news outlets base an article around it. Often they are very much the same. Here are five of the best and most timely. Bats reintroduced [...]
The fungal disease of bats known as white nose syndrome (WNS) is heading West. According to Sounding the Alarm for Bat Health by Meg Jones: “For now, Wisconsin’s bat population is hale and hearty. But a devastating fungus is racing through cave-dwelling bat populations in eastern states and it’s headed this way. White-nose syndrome has [...]
The Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife is on the trail of bat white nose disease (WNS). The article Bats in the attic? MassWildlife Wants to Know, from GateHouse News Service, reports that MassWildlife is asking residents to report bat colonies (ten or more bats) found in houses and other buildings. The data will help [...]
Bats in the eastern half of the USA have been suffering from a fungal disease called white nose syndrome (WNS). Once the disease appears in a colony it quickly spreads to hibernating bats to affect up to 95% of the population. Tennessee wildlife officials have closed access to all caves on public lands for a [...]
