Half of North American bat species are at risk, report warns

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BYZACK BUDRYK- 04/17/23 12:50 PM ET

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AP Photo/Tony Dejak, FileFILE — In this Feb. 8, 2017 file photo, a northern long-eared bat is held at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, in Cleveland. Tree-cutting on a key stretch of a power line in western Maine is going to stop almost as soon as it started to protect the newly born young of the federally protected bat. A federal appeals court last week gave the green light for construction on a 53-mile segment of the New England Clean Energy Connect, but construction will have to stop in June and July to protect the northern long-eared bat, which has been hard-hit by so-called white nose syndrome.

Roughly half of North America’s 154 bat species are under threat from population decline in the next 15 years, according to…

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