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PRO/AH/EDR> White nose syndrome, bats – North America (03): USA (NM) 1st rep
White nose syndrome -- United StatesA fungus threatening bat populations across New Mexico and the US was discovered by the federal Bureau of Land Management [BLM] in caves near Roswell, mere miles from the bat population that call Carlsbad Caverns home.The 2 caves were in De Baca and Lincoln counties and samples were inconclusive from a 2nd cave in Lincoln County.Most of the 500 000 bats that roost in the Caverns are Brazilian freetail bats which migrate and could spread the fungus known to cause Read more [...]
