Game and Fish was awarded nearly $30,000 in grant funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help protect the state’s 28-species of bats from white-nose syndrome, a deadly fungal disease. Funds issued were part of nearly $1 million in grants to 39-states to help combat the disease that has killed millions of bats in recent years nationwide. In Arizona, the funding will be used to research whether the fungus has begun to impact local cave-dwelling bats.
