A rare bat sighted in Scioto County leads McCormac to wonder about the endangered species and how it came to be that way.
WASHINGTON— A federal judge on Tuesday overturned a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect northern long-eared bats as threatened rather than endangered under the Endangered Species ...
In a reversal of a previous “threatened” listing that exempted destruction of the northern long-eared bat’s habitat from protection, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a proposal to list ...
Pennsylvania is home to an abundance of unique and diverse species spread across the state, and those include 23 that are recognized as endangered by the Commonwealth. Among these animals facing ...
Federal officials Tuesday proposed designating the Northern long-eared bat, once common but ravaged by a deadly fungus, as an endangered species. The population has plummeted since colonies ...
The northern long-eared bat was reclassified as endangered in 2022 as populations continued to decline. According to the FWS, data indicates that white-nose syndrome alone has caused estimated ...
“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today it is protecting the northern long-eared bat as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), primarily due to the threat posed by ...
The Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests in western North Carolina provide habitat for four critically endangered bats: the ...
The fight, however, continues. One particularly ominous action some members of the House and Senate have taken is to persuade the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) not to list the northern ...
These groups insist that federally protected bats such as the northern long-eared bat, Indiana bat ... logging over protecting some of the most endangered animals on the planet,” said Will ...
Four of the nine species of Adirondack bats belong to the genus Myotis, the mouse-eared ... brown bat is an exception because it resembles both Keen's myotis (M. septentrionalis) and the Indiana bat ...
Keen’s myotis is brown in color, darker above than below, and its fur is silky, not glossy like that of the little brown bat which it resembles. The ears of this species are long, narrow, and extend ...