Bat species across North America are expected to diminish significantly due to climate change, disease, and habitat loss. Eight species of bats in the U.S. are listed as endangered.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — More than half of North America's bat species are likely to diminish significantly as climate change, disease and habitat loss take their toll, scientists warned Monday.
The “state of the bats” report, by the North American Bat Conservation Alliance, warned that farmers will miss bats' insect-eating ways when they're gone.
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