(Reprinted from Bat Conservation International's Newsletter)
The newly released federal budget for 2012 contains good news for bats. Congress is directing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to spend $4 million for the fight against White-nose Syndrome, the rapidly spreading disease that has killed millions of bats across eastern North America since 2006. The direction was included in the Interior Appropriations segment of the Consolidated Appropriations Act that Congress passed and sent to President Obama for his signature.
The last time Congress designated funds for WNS was in 2010, when it appropriated $1.9 million to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This year, Bat Conservation International and others in the bat-conservation community had requested $11.1 million for six federal agencies that respond to WNS. Click here to learn more.
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