Including 530,000 just in Vermont. This is the first "update" of the much quoted "million" figure that I've seen.
http://www.news7newslinc.net/around-nek ... ont-042011
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See article at: Unprecedented Wildlife Crisis: Frogs, Bees, Bats, Is There a Connection?SustainableBusiness.com News wrote:Since 2006, the little brown bat has been reduced from a population of about 60 million to just 60,000 in NY State.
SustainableBusiness.com News wrote:Since 2006, over a million little brown bats have died from an epidemic fungal disease known as White Nose Syndrome.
Peter Youngbaer wrote:…the figure of 60 million bats down to 60,000 is wildly inaccurate. In testimony prepared for U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg in January, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated a total of about 1.2 million bats had died across the East since 2007.
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