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Canada 22 Jun 2026

Inside Alberta caves, biologists are fighting a fungus that is threatening bat colonies

Parks Canada crews are at work in Alberta's bat caves, spreading a blend of bacteria to try to save the flying night mammals from a deadly, and accelerating, fungal infection.

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Parks Canada crews are at work in Alberta's bat caves, spreading a blend of bacteria to try to save the flying night mammals from a deadly. And accelerating, fungal infection. Parks Canada crews are at work in Alberta's bat caves, spreading a blend of bacteria to try to save the flying night mammals from a deadly. And accelerating, fungal infection. Nina Veselka, a biologist with Parks Canada, has already seen the effects of the infection at a cave in Jasper National Park, where weary bats had fallen from the limestone walls. And struggled to survive from the cave floor. The scourge is white-nose syndrome and it is threatening Alberta's entire hibernating bat population. It's caused by a fungus that grows in cold and damp areas, such as bat caves. And can enter into the tissues of bats.

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