White Nose Syndrome (WNS) is a fungus that attacks hibernating bats and threatens to create one of the greatest mass extinctions of our time. First discovered in 2008, WNS could decimate 90% of the US bat population in a very few years. Each year US bats consume 100's of tons of insects, decreasing the need for pesticides. The loss of even a portion of the bat population could cost US farmers billions each year. Learn more about the effects of WNS by following link to this informative video:www.caves.org/WNS/battle_for_bats.htm What can you do? Contact your congressman! Ask for adequate funding for the scientific community to research the causes and find a cure to WNS. For the most effective methods to lobby congress, check this link:www.caves.org/WNS/lobby-congress.htm What is needed now? We need congress to provide significant research funding for WNS at the level recommended by the scientific community. If your Senator is on the Appropriations Committee, please ask that they work to bring a serious dialog on WNS to the floor and conference committee.
White Nose Syndrome (WNS) is a fungus that attacks hibernating bats and threatens to create one of the greatest mass extinctions of our time. First discovered in 2008, WNS could decimate 90% of the US bat population in a very few years. Each year US bats consume 100's of tons of insects, decreasing the need for pesticides. The loss of even a portion of the bat population could cost US farmers billions each year. Learn more about the effects of WNS by following link to this informative video:www.caves.org/WNS/battle_for_bats.htm What can you do? Contact your congressman! Ask for adequate funding for the scientific community to research the causes and find a cure to WNS. For the most effective methods to lobby congress, check this link:www.caves.org/WNS/lobby-congress.htm What is needed now? We need congress to provide significant research funding for WNS at the level recommended by the scientific community. If your Senator is on the Appropriations Committee, please ask that they work to bring a serious dialog on WNS to the floor and conference committee.
We signed the "White Nose Syndrome in Bats" petition!
# 190:
8:48 pm PST, Nov 20,Dietroly Dietroly, Germany
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# 188:
12:02 pm PST, Nov 18,Dee C., New York
# 187:
6:48 am PST, Nov 2,Helle Collin, Denmark
# 186:
5:55 am PDT, Oct 25,Joanne Stokowski, Virginia
# 184:
9:13 am PDT, Oct 18,Darin Scherer, Kentucky
# 183:
8:44 am PDT, Oct 18,Name not displayed, Philippines
# 182:
5:49 am PDT, Oct 18,Claudia Ioannidou, Cyprus
# 181:
8:29 am PDT, Oct 8,ALPHA WI, Germany
# 180:
2:43 am PDT, Oct 5,Dave Haines France, France
# 179:
10:17 am PDT, Oct 4,May Kinnersly, Japan
# 178:
10:31 pm PDT, Oct 3,Irina Ionescu, Romania
The bats are very vital creatures they help with the eco system by keeping rodants population down bugs that are harmful to crops as well. There cute flying foxes and vampire bats are the size of your thumb. They are getting very negitive attention throught the world without bats the eco systems and crops would fail.
# 177:
1:24 pm PDT, Oct 3,Forest Venkat, India
# 176:
10:41 am PDT, Oct 2,Nicola Mattin, United Kingdom
# 175:
1:20 am PDT, Oct 2,Maren Heinig, Australia
# 173:
3:40 pm PDT, Sep 27,Nadia Davidovich, Argentina
# 172:
1:34 pm PDT, Sep 27,Name not displayed, Louisiana
# 171:
8:50 am PDT, Sep 27,Michelle Evans, Kentucky
# 170:
2:29 pm PDT, Sep 24,Tonya Butts, New York
# 169:
9:12 am PDT, Sep 24,Raimey Vuckovich, Pennsylvania
# 168:
6:23 pm PDT, Sep 22,Allen Maddox, Pennsylvania
We can't afford to wait and see. Not many more hibernation cycles like the last one and we'll loose too many to recoup from. This will prove an environmental and economic hardship.
# 167:
9:44 am PDT, Sep 22,Rose Sisler, Kentucky
I do not want to see a world without our insectivores and pollinators.
# 166:
9:43 am PDT, Sep 22,Mary Kay Carson, Ohio
Plummeting bat populations affect everyone. Bats are the primary predators of night flying insects and are keystone species in most cave ecosystems. Their disappearance disrupts food webs that often end with human agriculture. Saving the bats, saves us, too.
# 165:
9:38 am PDT, Sep 22,DeWayne Hyatt, Kentucky
Please help to save this most valuable of resources by increasing funding to properly research and halt the spread of WNS.
# 164:
9:26 am PDT, Sep 22,James Wilbanks, Georgia
If we let the bats die, we will see an impact that historians will talk about. These creatures are turing point. Be on the right side.
# 163:
9:16 am PDT, Sep 22,Janice Meyer, Pennsylvania
As a caver and conservationalist, I know what the consequences could be if we contiue to have once stable and plentiful bat populations die off in massive amount. And the consequence to the endangered bat species may just be permanet- extinction. Imagine not being able to go outside because mosquitos are swarming in massive numbers, with no bats to eat them. Imagine the life inside of the caves and other roosting environments being decimated because a vital link in the chain is missing. And imagine the spread of this horrendous disease spreading to other species in and around the environment inhabited by infected bats. PLEASE do the right thing and help fund the research that is necessary to combat and treat this disease. Thank You ----Janice L. Meyer- citzen, bat lover, National Speleological Society member and organic gardener at large....
# 162:
8:48 am PDT, Sep 22,Phoebe Digges-Elliott, Kentucky
Please save our bats.
# 161:
8:42 am PDT, Sep 22,Chris Clark, Kentucky
Please increase the funding for White Nose Symdrome research immediately. Do not allow bats to go the way of the passenger pidgeon, extinct.
Give the researchers the tools they need and the manpower they need to work on finding someway to slow or stop the spread of WNS. Do not allow bats to simply fade away. This will only increase the cost of foods, health care, and pesticide control across the nation. Help them to find the keys to the end of WNS.
Sincerely,
Chris Clark
# 160:
7:57 pm PDT, Sep 20,Steven Dorion, Minnesota
Concerned that my son won't see the bat's flying around like I used to when I was a kid.
# 159:
1:31 pm PDT, Sep 20,Mark Danowsky, Pennsylvania
# 158:
9:30 am PDT, Sep 20,Laura Muller, Wisconsin
I currently work for the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies with many other ecologists. We are all very concerned about this recent epidemic in bats and certainly hope the US government will understand the need for immediate action in the form of funding for basic research. Thank you.
# 157:
2:15 pm PDT, Sep 19,Bekki Shining Bearheart, Ohio
# 156:
1:49 pm PDT, Sep 19,Jennifer S., Nevada
# 155:
5:18 pm PDT, Sep 18,Sheryl Goodwin, Maine
# 154:
12:30 pm PDT, Sep 18,Beverly Dixon, Pennsylvania
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