http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/old/taxonomy/term/9459/0 fr http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/decimated-bats/18010 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> White-nose syndrome hits Atlantic Canada </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/img_1746.jpg" alt="" title="Researchers taking info from bat in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia. (Alicia Irwin photo)" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/img_1864.jpg" alt="" title="Researcher looking for WNS scarring on a bat wing in Nova Scotia. (Alicia Irwin photo)" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>Bats are in trouble. Big trouble.</p> <p>The recently introduced disease white-nose syndrome has made its way from New York, where it was first introduced into North America, to the east coast of Canada. White-nose syndrome (WNS) was confirmed in parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the winter of 2010-2011, and was just confirmed in PEI this winter.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/decimated-bats/18010" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/decimated-bats/18010#comments Alicia Irwin Environnement Bats Halifax WNS Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:26:58 +0000 Editor 18010 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca