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Saving Sulawesi’s Fruit Bats Fruit bats have a brutally hard life in Sulawesi, an island in the heart of Indonesia. A remarkable 22 species of fruit bats live on the island, and some of them are found nowhere else. But their numbers are being decimated by overhunting for the commercial “bushmeat” trade, and their treatment on the way to market can only be described as torture ...more
WNS: Cave Closures This statement was issued by Bat Conservation International Executive Director Nina Fascione in support of the U.S. Forest Service decision on Tuesday (July 27) to close western caves.
With White-nose Syndrome threatening bats in the American West much sooner than expected, Bat Conservation International supports Tuesday’s emergency decision of the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region to temporarily close all caves and abandoned mines on its lands in Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas. WNS has already decimated bat colonies throughout the eastern United States.
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Bats in the News Deserts are especially harsh places to live. Yet many organisms thrive in these arid landscapes, largely because a range of adaptations provides a defense against the ravages of heat and scarce moisture. Bats are no exception. ScienceDaily reports that desert bats can change the makeup of their skin to reduce water loss...more
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Myotis volans
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