WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2014. Some of the world’s leading bat biologists are among more than 80 scientists who sent a letter today calling for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Interior Department to move forward with last year’s proposal to give critically imperiled northern long-eared batsthe full protection of the Endangered Species Act. An invasive fungal disease called white-nose syndrome has devastated the bat species, causing a decline of 99 percent in its core…
