Cave Activity Discouraged To Help Protect Bats From Deadly White-nose Syndrome

Saturday, May 2, 2009 - 18:28 in Biology & Nature

White-nose syndrome, a wildlife crisis of unprecedented proportions, has killed hundreds of thousands of bats from Vermont to West Virginia and continues unchecked. Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking those who use caves where bats hibernate - called hibernacula - to take extra precautions and to curtail activities to help prevent the spread of WNS.

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