Turkish Authorities Say: Let Sleeping Bats Lie
Photo via sirtrentalot at flickr
Hibernating bats in Havran, near Turkey’s Aegean coast, can rest easy this winter, thanks to a decision by local authorities to hold off on pumping water into a nearby dam reservoir, an action that would have flooded their cave.
One cave near newly completed Havran Dam is thought to hold 15,000 to 20,000 bats of eight or nine different species, the second largest colony in Turkey. According to a 2005 paper in the journal Zoology in the Middle East, “the species richness and the colony sizes qualify the site as an Important Mammal Area and woul…
October 25 2008 11:02 am | Environment and External Blogs and Green
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