(PCM) Warner Bros. has teamed up with the Organization for Bat Conservation to celebrate National Save the Bats week! Ben Affleck, Amy Adams, and Zach Snyder all appear in the video, explaining why it’s crucial that we take action to save the bats of North America.
Eating millions of bugs every night, bats are a crucial component to maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Aside from keeping the bug and insect population at a sustainable level, when bats consume copious amounts of critters, farmers use less pesticides on their crops, resulting in less pollution running into the ground and groundwater.
Recently, bats in Michigan, Arkansas, Wisconsin, 25 other states, and 5 Canadian provinces have been heavily affected by White Nose Syndrome, a very deadly emerging disease first recorded in a cave in New York in February, 2006 that is suspected for the deaths of 5.7 million to 6.7 million North American bats.
Heavily affecting bats during the winter months, White Nose Syndrome can be found in bats that hibernate in caves with the disease-causing fungus.
The disease is caused by Pseudogymnoascus destructans, a cold-loving fungus. Bats affected by White Nose Syndrome display a fungal growth around the muzzle and the wings and are driven to excessive activity due to interrupted temporary hibernation, resulting in their starvation. With no known treatment, the disease has resulted in the decline of over 90% of some species within just 5 years of reaching a site.
Watch the video below and take action in your area by visiting Savebats.org and building your own bat house!
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice is directed by Zack Snyder and stars Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne, Diane Lane, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, and Scoot McNairy and opens in theaters nationwide March 25, 2016.
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