Cory Olson is program coordinator of Wildlife Conservation Society Canada’s Alberta Bat Program. Through this program, he is raising awareness of bat conservation issues among the public and is working with governments, and others, to better understand and find solutions to the growing number of threats facing bats in Canada. He holds an MSc in animal ecology at the University
A fungus that is responsible for the deaths of millions of bats has arrived in Alberta. The fungus causes white-nose syndrome in bats, a disease that interrupts a bat's winter hibernation, prompting the animal to waste its energy and die of starvation. How did we get here?