Canada has signed an agreement with the United States and Mexico to protect migratory bats.
In the letter of intent, the three countries agreed to improve co-operation and planning to support bat conservation across North America.
Several species of the mammal are considered threatened or endangered in one or more of the countries.
The problems include the loss of migration habitats, wind turbines and disease such as white-nose syndrome.
Bats aren’t the only species the three countries have agreed to work together to protect.
A similar agreement was signed a year ago to help save the monarch butterfly, which is listed as a species of “special concern” under Canada’s Species At Risk Act.
The federal environment minister Leona Aglukkaq says this is the best way to protect species that summer in Canada, travel through the United States, and winter in Mexico.
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