When the North American Bat Conservation Alliance (NABCA) released its first ever State of Bats report this spring, it was intended as a baseline record of how bat species in North America were faring ...

Laura Torrent did not know that the tiny brown bat she caught in early 2024 would become a global milestone for biodiversity and conservation.She had suspected the small creature, caught during an ...

“They are an indicator species which lets us know that the environment is doing well where we are,” she says. “When we have ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A hundred experts from Mexico, the United States and Canada worked together for the past two years to release the first report on the state of the ...

Six new species of bat have been discovered in time for Halloween. The tube-nosed bats were identified in the protected forests of the Philippines by an international research team. They say the ...

Bats are an important part of our environment and provide us with many benefits, including insect control and fertilizer. However, bat populations in the United States are being threatened by the ...