“In a positive development for a maligned animal, cave-roosting bat populations in Wisconsin are recovering from a fungal epidemic…

Introduced to these shores by what were likely cave explorers from Europe, the humidity-loving fungus Psuedogymnoascus destuctans was having deadly effects on cave bats east of the Rockies…

A story from Wisconsin Today in 2024 reports, however, that in the state’s two largest roosting sites, the number of bats had gone up in 2023 and in 2024.

Jennifer Redell, a conservation biologist studying Wisconsin’s bats, said in the report that  ‘bats in Wisconsin that are surviving with White Nose Syndrome are doing things to reduce the amount of fungus on their body.’

Two months ago, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources conducted the annual bat survey, and sightings topped 25,000 individuals, a growth of more than a thousand since the previous year’s count.”

From Good News Network.