http://nhregister.com/articles/2011/10/02/news/doc4e87a6e0dff0f798621185.txt
Two bats and a bunny: Three vulnerable species that make Connecticut home are on their way to protection.
A federal judge recently approved an agreement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Center for Biological Diversity of Tucson, Ariz., which may lead to federal protections for up to 757 species of plants and animals.
Three of them include Connecticut in their historic range: the Eastern small-footed bat and Northern long-eared bat, both threatened by a fungus known as white-nose syndrome, and the New England cottontail rabbit.