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About 17,000 years ago, bats discovered these caves. A perfectly embalmed bat encased in a stalagmite over 100 years ago underscores the long relationship of bats and carlsbad. Ch evening from spring until fall, several hundred thousand take flight, rising in columns, then evaporating into the twilight skies. When the mexican freetails turn at dawn, they may have eaten 100 of their body weight in insects. Thats a half a Million Pounds of bugs. The visual display is amazing, but imagine what it m...

But, hundreds of thousands of birds and nearly 1 million bats die every year in collisions with wind turbines throughout the United States and Canada. As scientists look for ways to mitigate the effects of climate change, clean energy producers need to keep wildlife populations and their habitats in mind, experts say. “More than half of the (bat) species in the U.S. are either declining or at some risk of decline,” said Winifred Frick, chief scientist at Bat Conserva...

Hundreds of thousands of birds and nearly 1 million bats die every year in collisions with wind turbines throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Terry Husted lives in DeWitt County, a major pathway for migrating birds in central Illinois. After a company submitted plans to construct a wind farm in his area, Husted said

As white-nose syndrome continues to decimate bat populations, a Pennsylvania nonprofit is working to help bats recover from a variety of ailments and thrive.

Planning is sought for a major residential development on a Killarney site that was previously refused permission, due to potential impacts on the lesser horses...

The vandals had been using the boxes to slow down the repair of cameras and obscure their lenses after they wrongly thought they could not be removed.

Bats are under-appreciated in the role they can play in boosting grape yields, lowering disease risk and reducing the use of chemicals.

The duo are raising money for the Bat Conservation Trust and the Helping Rhinos charity as part of Big Give's Green Match Fund campaign

We check in with the longtime conservationist as he installs a bat-friendly, vandal-proof cave gate in Nashville.