Monday, April 4, 2011

Bats are worth at least $3 billion per year

Insect-eating bats are worth at least $3 billion—perhaps as much as $54 billion—per year to US agriculture alone, say biologists who evaluated their ecological contributions.

With bats threatened by careless wind-turbine development in major flyways and, more pressingly, by the new and dreadful White Nose Syndrome, protecting them isn’t just ethical. It makes bottom-line sense.

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