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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Protecting Endangered Indiana Bats

From U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Midwest Region:




We used pipeline mitigation funds to protect the world's largest hibernation site for endangered Indiana bats. One-third of the entire Indiana bat population hibernates in one place - a former mine in Hannibal, Missouri!

Photo: Biologists observing Indiana bats courtesy of Shelly Colatskie/Missouri Dept. of Conservation.

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