Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇
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Alberta Community Bat Program (www.albertabats.ca). Promoting bat conservation, stewardship & education. A program of WCS Canada (Wildlife Conservation Society Canada) and a member of the WCS Canada Western Bat Program.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
🦇There is a good description of the probiotic project and some of the other approaches being tested to help combat white-nose syndrome in bats here:
www.fws.gov/story/preven...
www.fws.gov/story/preven...
Preventing and treating white-nose syndrome | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
In the depths of winter, bats across North America are waking from hibernation dangerously early, plagued with a disease that’s killing millions of their peers. White-nose syndrome, caused by the fung...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🦇There is a good description of the probiotic project and some of the other approaches being tested to help combat white-nose syndrome in bats here:
www.fws.gov/story/preven...
www.fws.gov/story/preven...
🦇You can find the recent paper published about this here
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🦇You can find the recent paper published about this here
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
*NASBR is the North American Society for Bat Research (www.nasbr.org) and TWS is the National Conference for The Wildlife Society in North America.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
*NASBR is the North American Society for Bat Research (www.nasbr.org) and TWS is the National Conference for The Wildlife Society in North America.
We invited local wildlife artists who featured bats/night-themes to the NASBR/TWS joint social in Edmonton this past October (& TWS had artists present too). We didn't charge them for tables! Artists & delegates really enjoyed having them there. And yes, they were selling!
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
We invited local wildlife artists who featured bats/night-themes to the NASBR/TWS joint social in Edmonton this past October (& TWS had artists present too). We didn't charge them for tables! Artists & delegates really enjoyed having them there. And yes, they were selling!
There is a bunch of information in this guidebook that would be applicable to bats outside of Alberta - general concepts around bat biology and the threats that face bats.
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
There is a bunch of information in this guidebook that would be applicable to bats outside of Alberta - general concepts around bat biology and the threats that face bats.
You can find the guidebook here - www.albertabats.ca/wp-content/u...
www.albertabats.ca
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
You can find the guidebook here - www.albertabats.ca/wp-content/u...
A few bat species will take up space in buildings for summer roosts! We have some good advice on how to safely coexist with a colony on our website www.albertabats.ca/batsinbuildings It is rarer to find them there in winter - but that is highly dependent on your location & the bat species!
Bats in Buildings - Alberta Community Bat Program
Bats and Buildings Roosts are places that bats use to rest when they are not out flying. Some of the most common bat species in Alberta use buildings as roosting sites, and as sites for raising offspr...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A few bat species will take up space in buildings for summer roosts! We have some good advice on how to safely coexist with a colony on our website www.albertabats.ca/batsinbuildings It is rarer to find them there in winter - but that is highly dependent on your location & the bat species!
🦇Signs of white-nose syndrome in bats was first noted in upper New York State in 2006! So, the fungus was probably here a couple of years before that. www.whitenosesyndrome.org has tracked the spread. Estimates are that we have lost 10million+ bats since 2006.
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🦇Signs of white-nose syndrome in bats was first noted in upper New York State in 2006! So, the fungus was probably here a couple of years before that. www.whitenosesyndrome.org has tracked the spread. Estimates are that we have lost 10million+ bats since 2006.
We have a new video with updates coming out soon! And yes, it is good to have some good news!
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
We have a new video with updates coming out soon! And yes, it is good to have some good news!
It has been a big effort by a large number of people! We are thrilled that it is helping. We are now working with the biologists in AB and have applied it to two sites which we hope to follow next spring. The hope is we get funding to continue this work and actually mount a defense for western bats!
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It has been a big effort by a large number of people! We are thrilled that it is helping. We are now working with the biologists in AB and have applied it to two sites which we hope to follow next spring. The hope is we get funding to continue this work and actually mount a defense for western bats!
The best batman!
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The best batman!
Indeed!
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Indeed!