Bats, friend or foe??

Barbara Webb is a wildlife biologist who works for Deschute National Forest. She told us about the importance of bats! She told us that bats use caves for hibernation. They are very important in ecosystem, if they are removed the amount of bugs would increase rapidly! Bats have been in danger for the past couple of years. A disease called white nose has been traveling from Europe through the Americas. There is no known cure yet for the disease but research in being done. This virus is spread rapidly and by people who regularly visit caves especially from other countries. They are trying to stop the spread by closing most public caves. The virus has not passed thought the Rocky Mountains yet but probably will. We have lost over 6 million bats since 2007!

I did not know anything about this problem with bats. I personally thought they were ugly creatures but now I know their importance in the ecosystem and I would like to help their species from going extinct :(