This coming winter almost certainly will see White-nose Syndrome increasing its devastation among hibernating bats and spreading into still more states beyond the American Northeast. Now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is presenting its draft framework for a plan to coordinate and manage the national response to this disastrous disease. The framework, which outlines key priorities, actions and goals for a national plan, was prepared in coordination with U.S....more

A European songbird that usually dines on insects and seeds has added an unusual item to its menu: hibernating common pipistrelle bats, BBC News reports Scientists writing in the journal Biology Letters, said that during two winters studying a cave in Hungary, they documented great tit songbirds “systematically hunting bats by sight and sound as they hibernated through the cold months,” said BBC...more

Bunkers and bomb shelters dot the historic Jordan River Valley between Israel and Jordan. Since the peace agreement of 1994, most have been abandoned – except by an assortment of bats, which roost precariously on the slick ceilings and walls.

Giving a conservationist twist to the notion of beating swords into plowshares, a group of Israelis, with support from BCI’s Global Grassroots Conservation Fund, converted these old bunkers into prime bat roosts...more