Tag: Bats

Wind and solar energy projects can be deadly for birds and bats, but the ones that die can play a role in making these facilities safer for other wildlife. At...

As Russian forces advanced this summer on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, the façade of an eight-story apartment building in the Saltivka district suffered heavy damages from shelling, as did many...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing tricolored bats as federally endangered due to the widespread impact of the deadly white-nose syndrome. Tricolored bats (Perimyotis subflavus) are found...

Bats have proteins in their cells that are more pressured by coronaviruses than the same proteins in other mammals, researchers found. That information may help scientists understand more about potential...

Wildlife managers looking to prevent widespread losses of bats to white-nose syndrome need to treat the fungal disease early and intensely. White-nose syndrome, a deadly disease caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus...

The Wildlife Society Bulletin is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published four times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management and...

As wind energy development increases around the world, the spinning turbines can be deadly to bats, and the ecosystem services that bats provide—like pest control—are lost with them. Researchers in...

Southern Georgia doesn’t have many caves, so bats there need to find other places to hibernate. For some the solution is culverts—tunnels that channel water underneath roads.  But researchers worried...

Increasing rates of vaccination among wildlife managers and mask use has likely reduced the risk of transmission of coronavirus from humans to the bats they work with. Bats can carry...

Citing the escalation of white-nose syndrome, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to reclassify the threatened northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act....