What’s Best for Bats
February 18, 2019
Teams of researchers are working in caves and mines in the western United States and Canada to understand how bats might be affected during hibernation by a fungal disease that is killing the winged animals in other regions. But some critics, including a bat expert who has written in Issues about how bats are often wrongly blamed for spreading infectious diseases, say the work might do more harm than good while also wasting money that could be better spent on helping surviving bats recover and rebuild populations.