Save the Bats
WHY WE SHOULD SAVE BATS:
It’s a fact bats play a key role in maintaining the health of the environment. Healthier bats mean a healthier world.
They are the primary predator of nighttime insects. A single bat can eat up to 5,000 in a single night.
This means farmers can use fewer pesticides, which means safer food. And all that bug-eating saves the American agricultural industry about $23 billion a year.
Also, bats are great pollinators and seed dispersers. They help repopulate plants, maintain forests, grow fruits like bananas and are the only pollinators of agave. Tequila, anyone?
When you consider all this, there’s no question that bats are friends to humans. Sure, some of them may not be the cutest and cuddliest, but they are our friends nonetheless.
WHY BATS NEED SAVING:
White-nose Syndrome is bat threat number one. It’s caused by a fungus and has killed more than 6 million bats to date.
Climate change–need we say more?
Loss of natural habitat. Like anything else, if you don’t have a place to live, it’s hard to survive.
Add it all up and conservationists around the globe are extremely concerned that bats may be headed for extinction.
SO, WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Be a friend of the bats. If you like the planet and tequila and pesticide-free food, then get involved. Put up a bat house, plant bat-friendly gardens, donate to the cause. And be sure to like us on Facebook to find out more ways to help Save the Bats.
It’s a fact bats play a key role in maintaining the health of the environment. Healthier bats mean a healthier world.
They are the primary predator of nighttime insects. A single bat can eat up to 5,000 in a single night.
This means farmers can use fewer pesticides, which means safer food. And all that bug-eating saves the American agricultural industry about $23 billion a year.
Also, bats are great pollinators and seed dispersers. They help repopulate plants, maintain forests, grow fruits like bananas and are the only pollinators of agave. Tequila, anyone?
When you consider all this, there’s no question that bats are friends to humans. Sure, some of them may not be the cutest and cuddliest, but they are our friends nonetheless.
WHY BATS NEED SAVING:
White-nose Syndrome is bat threat number one. It’s caused by a fungus and has killed more than 6 million bats to date.
Climate change–need we say more?
Loss of natural habitat. Like anything else, if you don’t have a place to live, it’s hard to survive.
Add it all up and conservationists around the globe are extremely concerned that bats may be headed for extinction.
SO, WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Be a friend of the bats. If you like the planet and tequila and pesticide-free food, then get involved. Put up a bat house, plant bat-friendly gardens, donate to the cause. And be sure to like us on Facebook to find out more ways to help Save the Bats.
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