Scientific American: Feds draft plan to protect bats from lethal white-nose syndrome

                                                      
                                                          95% of the state's bats have died from WNS infection.
                                                      Photo credit: Scientific American

Since its discovery in January 2007 the lethal fungal infection known as white-nose syndrome (WNS) has killed at many as 1.5 million bats in the U.S. Northeast.  Now, as temperatures start to drop this autumn into the range where WNS operates at its optimal killing capacity, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has drafted a plan to respond to the problem.
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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 10/7/2009 7:00 AM
Categories: Bats
Tags: Federal plan protect deadly infection extinction white-nose syndrome bats Scientific American
 

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