Merlin Tuttle, who founded Bat Conservation International in 1982 and spent the last 27 years building it into the leading defender of bats worldwide, is stepping back from his leadership role. Merlin is resigning as President/Executive Director on May 31. He will remain a part of BCI, assuming the title President Emeritus and continuing on BCI’s Board of Trustees. Merlin and John Mitchell, Chair of the BCI Board of Trustees, jointly expressed their confidence that “this transition in leadership will go smoothly, and BCI can look forward to impressive achievements in the years ahead.” The search for a...more

Biologist Rick Adams and his students at the University of Northern Colorado have been conducting bat research for 13 years in a wondrously diverse region of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. The underlying questions of all that work have centered around the impacts of limited water resources on the structure of bat communities, on roost selection and reproductive ecology. “Unfortunately,” Adams reports, “our data strongly suggest a potentially devastating impact of climate change on these bats...more

Twenty-five federal lawmakers are seeking emergency funding from the U.S. Department of Interior to help scientists seek solutions to White-nose Syndrome, which is blamed for the deaths of more than 1 million bats over the past two winters, The Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey, reports....more