Update — Bat Crisis « Siouxsie Law

Update — Bat Crisis

Back in December, Siouxsie posted about a killer fungus infecting brown bats in the Northeast. The crisis is getting worse. The fungus has now spread to the Midwest. On July 27, the U.S. Forest Service issued an emergency order to close caves as far west as Colorado. And scientists predict the fungus will wipe out all hibernating bats in the Northeast within 20 years.

This entry was posted on August 15, 2010 at 5:52 pm and is filed under Animals, Death, End of the World with tags bats, caves, U.S. Forest Service, white nose disease. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Update — Bat Crisis”

N. Faratu Says:
August 16, 2010 at 2:52 am

This is really scary. Reminds me of DDT and the osprey.

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Endangered bats « Siouxsie Law Says:
July 20, 2011 at 1:05 am

[...] I blogged about white-nose syndrome previously here and here. [...]

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