WNS video and audio resources
Video/Audio posted February 21, 2012
Part 1 of the White-Nose Syndrome Webinar Series hosted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Conservation Training Center
Source: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Video/Audio posted February 1, 2012
Bats provide invaluable free pest control for our planet-- but now a deadly fungus is sweeping across the country and experts say it is North America's most devastating wildlife disease in history. It's called white-nose syndrome.
Video/Audio posted November 11, 2011
Commentary by Susi von Oettingen, endangered species biologist for the Northeast Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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 Something is Killing Our Bats | 12.24 MB |
Source: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Video/Audio posted November 11, 2011
Join U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Vermont State Fish and Wildlife biologists as they conduct the fall swarming survey at Elizabeth Mine in Strafford, VT.
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| Vermont State Fish and Wildlife | 31.44 MB |
Source: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Video/Audio posted November 11, 2011
Damage to bat wings from the fungus associated with white-nose syndrome (WNS) may cause catastrophic imbalance in life-support processes, and this imbalance may be to blame for the more than 1 million deaths of bats due to WNS thus far.
Video/Audio posted November 11, 2011
Reporting in Science, researchers write that little brown bats, or Myotis lucifugus, are likely to disappear from the Northeast over the next 16 years. Study author Winifred Frick discusses white-nose syndrome, which is associated with die-offs and caused by a fast-moving fungus.
Video/Audio posted November 11, 2011
A couple of years ago, we told you about a mysterious fungus that was killing bats in the United States. Well now it has crossed the border into Canada. And it's threatening at least one species with extinction.
Video/Audio posted November 11, 2011
Bats are an essential part of a healthy ecosystem. However a newly discovered disease, white-nose syndrome, is devastating bat populations across the eastern United States, killing millions of bats, and threatening extinction for several species of these beneficial creatures.
Source: National Park Service
Video/Audio posted November 11, 2011
Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs Oversight Hearing on "Why We Should Care About Bats: Devastating Impact White-Nose Syndrome is Having on One of Nature's Best Pest Controllers"
Video/Audio posted June 14, 2011
Video/Audio posted June 9, 2011
White-nose syndrome video created by Ravenswood Media.
Educational use only (in its entirety) granted to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Credit:© Ravenswood Media.
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| Download WMV file | 67.47 MB |
Video/Audio posted March 31, 2011
Insect-eating bats provide pest-control services that save the U.S. agriculture industry over $3 billion per year, according to a study released today. However, scientists with the U.S.
Video/Audio posted January 19, 2011
An educational video regarding National Park Service researchers gathering information about Great Smoky Mountain National Park's bats, to understand and combat white nose syndrome, and the important roles bats play in our ecosystems.
Video/Audio posted May 17, 2008
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species biologist Susi von Oettingen talks about white-nose syndrome in bats and investigates a hibernaculum in an abandoned mine and the area around it.
Source: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service