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<title>White nose syndrome ravages bat populations as it spreads west</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 12, 2012) White Nose Syndrome is a deadly bat disease that continues to spread rapidly across the U.S. It was first identified in a cave near Albany in 2006. In the six years since, it&apos;s wiped out 90% of the population of bats in many caves across northern New York and Vermont. Researchers have made headway identifying the fungal disease, but they&apos;ve found no way to stop it from infecting new sites as far away as western Ontario and Missouri. Brian Mann checked in with Mollie Mattieson, with the Center for Biological Diversity in Vermont, which has been one of the leading environmental groups working on white nose syndrome. She is just back from a national conference on the disease and says much of the news is still bleak. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19961/20120612/white-nose-syndrome-ravages-bat-populations-as-it-spreads-west">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>As bat disease spreads, scientists have few answers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 19, 2011) State biologists say Little brown bats are no longer the most common bat in New York.  Their numbers have been wiped out so dramatically by the fungal disease known as “white nose syndrome” that they are now outnumbered by Big brown bats.In all roughly half a million bats have died in New York state alone since 2007.  White nose has also spread from Upstate New York to a dozen other states, as well as Ontario and Quebec.Brian Mann checked in with Carl Herzog.  He’s a wildlife biologist with the Department of Environmental Conservation, who led research trips to bat caves this winter.Herzog says two species – Indiana bats and Northern bats – have been nearly wiped out.  But he also said researchers found some signs for hope. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17499/20110419/as-bat-disease-spreads-scientists-have-few-answers">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>White Nose syndrome continues rapid spread, infecting bats</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 15, 2011) The rapid spread of the bat-killing disease known as White Nose Syndrome continues to baffle and alarm scientists.  The fungus was first identified in upstate New York and has now appeared in states as far away as Oklahoma and North Carolina.  Brian Mann has our update. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17159/20110215/white-nose-syndrome-continues-rapid-spread-infecting-bats">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>White nose syndrome in 2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 29, 2010) The deadly bat disease known as ‘white nose syndrome’ was first identified in northern New York over three years ago. It’s still spreading rapidly, with outbreaks confirmed this year in Ontario and as far away as Tennessee.Here in the North Country, biologists now say the disease has wiped out 95% of the largest bat colonies. Brian Mann was with a team of biologists when they returned early last spring to the cave near Albany where the first bats infected with white nose were discovered. He sent this audio postcard. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16895/20101229/white-nose-syndrome-in-2010">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Vermont green group wants bats threatened by &apos;white nose&apos; syndrome added to endangered list</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 25, 2010) An environmental group based in Vermont says it plans to sue the federal government over its handling of white nose syndrome.  That’s the deadly disease that’s been killing bats across the eastern US.  The Center for Biological Diversity hopes to pressure the Interior Department into adding two species of bats to the endangered species list.As Brian Mann reports, that could mean changes to timber harvesting and other human activities in the forests where the bats spend their summers. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15871/20100625/vermont-green-group-wants-bats-threatened-by-apos-white-nose-apos-syndrome-added-to-endangered-list">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Hale&apos;s Cave near Albany is ground zero of a deadly bat disease</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 29, 2010) The deadly bat disease known as white-nose syndrome was first identified in upstate New York three years ago.  It continues to spread fast, with outbreaks now confirmed as far away as Ontario and Maryland.  Researchers still don&apos;t know how to stop the fungus from reaching new caves.  Here in the North Country, biologists now say the disease has already wiped out 95% of the largest bat colonies.  Brian Mann traveled recently with a team of biologists returning to the cave near Albany where the first bats infected with white nose were discovered.  He sent this audio postcard. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15434/20100329/hale-apos-s-cave-near-albany-is-ground-zero-of-a-deadly-bat-disease">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>White Nose Syndrome kills 90% of Northeastern bats</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 17, 2009) Researchers say a disease called ‘white nose syndrome’ has killed more than 90 percent of the bats in the North Country and in caves across the Northeast.  The report issued yesterday by New York’s Conservation Department found that some of the most important hibernation sites have been completely wiped out.  North Country Public Radio’s Brian Mann reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14916/20091217/white-nose-syndrome-kills-90-of-northeastern-bats">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>As bats return to winter caves, white-nose disease expected to spread fast</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 9, 2009) Last week, the US Fish &amp; Wildlife Service issued preliminary guidelines urging roughly two-dozen states to prepare for the arrival of &quot;white nose syndrome.&quot;  That&apos;s the deadly fungal disease that has wiped out bat colonies across northern New York and Vermont. White nose was first discovered in a cave near Albany.  Some of the hardest hit sites are in the Adirondacks and the Green Mountains, where researchers estimate that hundreds of thousands of animals have died.  Brian Mann spoke yesterday with Jeremy Coleman, with the Fish and Wildlife Service.  Coleman is the national coordinator for the hundreds of scientists working to develop a response to white nose syndrome. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14863/20091209/as-bats-return-to-winter-caves-white-nose-disease-expected-to-spread-fast">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0:  Lake George bat cave nearly depopulated by &apos;white nose syndrome&apos;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Aug 18, 2009) State Conservation biologist Al Hicks says the old Graphite Mine in the town of Hague near Lake George has seen its population of Little Brown Bats nearly wiped out. Hicks spoke over the weekend at a gathering of the Adirondack Nature Conservancy in Newcomb. He said the hibernaculum, which sits in a Nature Conservancy Preserve, has been infected by a deadly bat disease called &quot;white nose syndrome.&quot;&quot;The Graphite Mine was the largest Little Brown colony counted in the world, with about 200,000 animals,&quot; Hicks said.  &quot;Our guess walking through was that there was about 3,000 animals left.&quot;Hicks first raised the alarm about white nose syndrome in 2007.  He said the latest research indicates that the disease continues to spread in all directions. &quot;We have not seen any clear evidence yet of any kind of resistance,&quot; he added.  &quot;The animals that are surviving from one year to the next appear to be animals that simply got lucky and didn&apos;t get infected.&quot; White nose is now killing bats in at least nine states.  Hicks predicted that under the worst case scenario &quot;an entire order of mammals&quot; would be wiped out from the United States.As part of our Story 2.0 series, we revisit Hicks&apos; trip to Aeolus Cave in Vermont last winter. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14178/20090818/story-2-0-lake-george-bat-cave-nearly-depopulated-by-apos-white-nose-syndrome-apos">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>As bat disease spreads, a Willsboro church becomes a laboratory</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Aug 4, 2009) This summer, researchers are fanning out across the Northeast trying to get a clearer picture of what is happening to the region&apos;s bats.  Scientists say many bat colonies have been wiped out by a fungal disease, called white-nose syndrome, first detected in 2006. One of the big questions still unanswered is how white-nose syndrome is transmitted.  Brian Mann joined a team of biologists studying bats in an old church in Willsboro in the Champlain Valley. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14094/20090804/as-bat-disease-spreads-a-willsboro-church-becomes-a-laboratory">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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