Batemans Bay is in a state of emergency after the Australian town was taken over by a massive swarm of 100,000 bats, while the New South Wales government scrambled to allocate $2.5 million to address the issue.
The environmental organization Nature Conservancy has developed an artificial cave with which they hope to get control of a deadly infection in bats that could lead the animal to extinction in a few short years.
Researchers have designed a free online tool called iBatsID to identify European bats via their calls and to assist bat conservation throughout the continent.
A New Brunswick scientist is sounding the alarm over a deadly fungus that is severely impacting bat populations in the province and could spread across Canada.