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Bats are so important to our environment! We should do what we can to help them survive. Below you will see information on bats in the news. If you know of any interesting bat news...please email us and if we find we can use it here we will. Thanks!
Read all about the little brown bat named Eegore and his caretaker friend, Sue. ;-) This story appeared in Scholastic News!
Hoosier National Forest plans delayed...
(From the Southern Indiana Messenger-Inquirer,
October 29, 1998 issue)
Concerns over the Indiana bat have shelved a plan to salvage tornado damaged trees in the Hoosier National Forest because the U.S. Forest Service ruled that Hoosier National Forest had not shown that the project would protect the Indiana Bat, an endangered species. The plan had involved the cutting down of trees damaged by a tornado in Apirl 1996.
Weekly Reader tells of the Indiana Bat's
plight...
(Weekly Reader edition 3, Dec. 11, '98)
Read about the Indiana Bat, an endangered bat, living in Pennsylvania. There were plans for a new highway to be built there, but the danger to the habitat of the Indiana Bat has stopped the building of the highway. There are trees that were going to be cut down that are believed to be the bats' homes. If the trees are cut down then the bats do not have their homes and might die.
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There you can read more about this.