Tagged: White-nose syndrome

Throughout the month of February, Tessa McBurney (CWHC Atlantic) and Jordi Segers (CWHC National Office) delivered workshops in a webinar format on monitoring bats in Atlantic Canada. The goal of the webinar was to...

The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative Atlantic Region has developed comprehensive guidance for wildlife management agencies, pest control agencies, and the public on how to manage bats in buildings.  As we are moving our focus to managing...

The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative is a proud partner in the organization of Bat Week. Below is the report of Bat Week 2020 achievements, developed by the Bat Week steering committee. The Bat Week steering...

The second Bat Matters Conference, virtually centered in Richmond, BC, was a huge success. The theme this year was Creating Bat-Friendly Communities. The conference was conceived in as a way to celebrate the City...

Long throughout human history bats have had a bad reputation. Many people of past and present fear bats, often due to common misconceptions related to disease. Since white-nose syndrome (an introduced fungal disease that...