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May 8th, 2013, 08:21 AM
Cold War bunkers offer bats refuge from killer disease
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Cold War nuclear bunkers are being given a new lease of life, this time to protect bats against WNS
Cold War nuclear bunkers are the latest attempt to safeguard US bat populations under attack from white-nose syndrome.
Scientists have converted two of the 43 bunkers at the former Loring Air Force Base, Maine, which has been a wildlife reserve since the mid-1990s.
The artificial hibernacula are designed to safeguard bats from the disease that was first recorded in the US in 2006.
White-nose syndrome (WNS) has killed up to an estimated 6.7 million bats so far and is continuing to spread.
BBC News - Cold War bunkers offer bats refuge from killer disease (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22354517)
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Cold War nuclear bunkers are being given a new lease of life, this time to protect bats against WNS
Cold War nuclear bunkers are the latest attempt to safeguard US bat populations under attack from white-nose syndrome.
Scientists have converted two of the 43 bunkers at the former Loring Air Force Base, Maine, which has been a wildlife reserve since the mid-1990s.
The artificial hibernacula are designed to safeguard bats from the disease that was first recorded in the US in 2006.
White-nose syndrome (WNS) has killed up to an estimated 6.7 million bats so far and is continuing to spread.
BBC News - Cold War bunkers offer bats refuge from killer disease (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22354517)