ScienceDaily reports Many cities are introducing green areas to protect their fauna. Amongst such measures are flower strips, which provide support to flower-visiting insects, insect- and seed-eating birds. According to the first quantitative assessment of the speed and distance over which urban flower strips attract wild bees, one-year-old flower strips attract 1/3 of the 232 species […]
via How quickly do flower strips in cities help the local bees? — Natural History Wanderings
The bat reappeared in Papua New Guinea, according to a new study When the New Guinea big-eared bat, which hadn’t been seen for over a century, was captured, it hadn’t even been hiding. In fact, student researchers Catherine Hughes and Julie Broken-Brow from the University of Queensland trapped the bat in Papua New Guinea in […]
via ‘Extinct’ New Guinea Big Eared Bat re-surfaces. — THE OLD GUV LEGENDS
More than a decade after a devastating, bat-killing fungus was first discovered at a State Parks cave in the Capital Region before sweeping across half of the U.S., that same cave now offers a glimmer of hope for some survivors. Hailes Cave stretches for nearly a mile beneath the 100 million-year-old limestone escarpment at Thacher […]
via Parks Cave As Sanctuary for Embattled Bats — New York State Parks Blog
Bats get a bad rap. Whether they’re in the belfry or portrayed as flying bloodsuckers in pop culture, humans generally don’t feel warm and cozy about the creatures of the night. “It’s absolutely true,” said Carolyn Callaghan, the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s senior conservation biologist, terrestrial wildlife, down the line from Luskville, Quebec. “We associate them […]
via Help the bats, says the Canadian Wildlife Federation — Toronto Sun
By Cole Lalonde Jan. 8, 2020 Little Brown Bats on Prince Edward Island have long been threatened by a deadly fungus in a process experts say could be accelerated by climate change. White nose syndrome is a disease that spreads from bat-to-bat and is named as such due to a white fluff that appears on […]
via (VIDEO )Bat-killing fungus accelerating due to climate change — The Surveyor
Kuala Lumpur, 6 January 2020 – The non-profit conservation research group Rimba has just produced a ‘Conservation Roadmap for Flying Foxes Pteropus spp. in Peninsular Malaysia’, in collaboration with the Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia (PERHILITAN). Rimba’s Project Pteropus has been working on flying fox conservation in collaboration with PERHILITAN since 2012. […]
This July 2018 video is called Lesser short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis). From the National University of Singapore: Even resilient common species are not immune to environmental crisis Measures of genetic diversity of a fruit bat common in Singapore decreased 30-fold over the last 90 years December 18, 2019 A recent study by scientists from […]
via Singapore fruit bats suffer from environmental degradation — Dear Kitty. Some blog
This 2015 video says about itself: Stop the Killing of Thousands of Mauritius’ Flying Foxes Photo Credit: Jacques de Speville The Mauritius fruit bats (aka flying foxes) play a key role in their ecosystem as pollinators and seed dispersers – and now they’re in grave danger. Each night, hundreds of these bats are being killed, […]
via Mauritian flying foxes, don’t kill them — Dear Kitty. Some blog
By Damian Carrington as published on The Guardian The huge loss is a tragedy in itself but also threatens the survival of civilization, say the world’s leading scientists Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an […]
