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Disease, wind turbines menace bat population
While the bat will never make nature's cute and cuddly list, it is a vital part of the ecosystem and its population is being threatened on a number of fronts.
Large numbers of bats have reportedly been killed and injured by wind turbines, and a disease called "white nose syndrome" threatens to kill bats by the hundreds of thousands.
March 24, 2010
by Dan Pelton
in Orangeville Citizen
While the bat will never make nature's cute and cuddly list, it is a vital part of the ecosystem and its population is being threatened on a number of fronts.
Large numbers of bats have reportedly been killed and injured by wind turbines, and a disease called "white nose syndrome" threatens to kill bats by the hundreds of thousands.
To point out an immediate benefit of the bat is to consider that a single small brown bat can, in an hour, consume up to 1,000 mosquitoes that otherwise might be buzzing around our heads or gorging on our blood.
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