Bats Getting Overheated and Dying in Boxes Meant for their Conservation is an Alarming Sign of Climate Change
Support OneGreenPlanet Being publicly-funded gives us a greater chance to continue providing you with high quality content. Please support us! Support Us Once a crucial conservation tool used to boost bat populations, bat boxes are becoming death traps as climate-change-induced weather events cause extreme heating. The boxes, commonly installed on houses, barns, and other buildings to give bats a safe place to roost and raise their young, were not designed for the rises in temperature currently being witnessed across the globe. While this issue has been arising in the classically hot re...