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By Christian Thorsberg<\/strong>
\nMedill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n

In Coahuila, Mexico, a faint emergence of sound \u2014 <\/span>swoosh<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> swish<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> swoosh <\/span><\/i>\u2014 slices through arid air convecting in the Chihuahuan Desert\u2019s chilly nocturne. <\/span>Swish<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>swoosh<\/span><\/i>, this consonance soundtracks the faint visions briefly sashaying \u2014 pink, brown and white blurs and flurries \u2014 across the rocky landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 3-inch tall Mexican long-nosed bat \u2014 furry and pregnant, just finishing another 30-mile leg of her 750-mile flight northward \u2014 crash-lands nightly with a muffled <\/span>swoop <\/span><\/i>into the bright yellow flower clusters of native agave plants. She reaches with her long muzzle \u2014 <\/span>slip<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> slurp <\/span><\/i>\u2014 and quietly sucks the flowers\u2019 sugary nectar before finding a nearby colony to spend the night.<\/span><\/p>\n

The locals in rural Coahuila and neighboring Nuevo Le\u00f3n, many of them lifelong residents who know the land intimately, had no idea they shared their homes with this colony. Not until viewing the bat footage from Kristen Lear\u2019s infrared cameras, set on tripods some 30 feet from agave plants\u2014Lear and her team watching attentively in fold-out chairs on a steep hillside\u2014did the residents realize the bat\u2019s migration corridor, spanning Central Mexico to the Southwest United States, runs right through their slice of nightfall.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we showed (community members) the videos, they were so amazed and kind of proud that they had something like this on their land,\u201d said<\/span> Lear, an endangered species interventions specialist with Bat Conservation International. \u201cThe bats are so graceful and clumsy at the same time. I think they really bring people together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Though this cultural heart-hold is only just budding, the Mexican long-nosed bat has long been an unsung ecological hero in Mexico and the American Southwest\u2019s desert and montane ecosystems. Their clunky landings, though optically goofy, play an important role in pollination. <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen these bats throw themselves on the agave flowers, they\u2019re getting covered in pollen,\u201d Lear said. \u201cThey (the bats) can fly 30 to 40 miles in one night, so they’re spreading that pollen over a wide distance and really helping mix those agave genes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But this symbiotic relationship is at risk. Widespread drought and a greater incidence of wildfires, a result of global warming \u2014 in addition to humans over-farming agave sugars used to make mezcals \u2014 are shrinking the plant\u2019s habitats and the Mexican long-nosed bat\u2019s food source. The result is a positive feedback loop in a desert that, with fewer and fewer agave to maintain the health of shrubbery and streams, is experiencing rapid soil erosion and waterway pollution. Meanwhile, scientists estimate fewer than 5,000 Mexican long-nosed bats are alive today, and the species\u2019 future is uncertain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like a 1-2-3 punch,\u201d Lear said. \u201cThe bat is a keystone species. If something happens to them, it’s going to have a cascading effect on our deserts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Mexican long-nosed bat is one of 10 species \u201cimperiled by climate change\u201d in the United States this year, according to a <\/span>report<\/span><\/a> published in December by the Endangered Species Coalition (ESC). Written in partnership with six organizations \u2014 including the Sierra Club, National Plant Society and the American Bird Conservancy \u2014 the report was curated over a span of six months. More than a dozen scientists were consulted to finalize the list of \u201cimperiled\u201d species \u2014 those whose populations are already dwindling as a result of climate change and may face extinction in the coming years without any form of drastic intervention.<\/span><\/p>\n

Publishing the report soon after the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow and the Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China,\u00a0 was especially important, said Derek Goldman, one of the report\u2019s authors and the ESC\u2019s national field director and Northern Rockies senior field representative.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA big driver of the biodiversity crisis is climate change,\u201d Goldman said. \u201cAnd we need to address these twin issues of climate change and biodiversity loss together if we\u2019re going to have any hope of stemming the tide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Goldman said it was also crucial to fill the report with lesser-known endangered species. Other than the monarch butterfly, many of the listed species are less recognizable, including the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog, the western ridged mussel, the Maui parrotbill, Ka palupalu o Kanaloa, elkhorn coral and Goodding\u2019s onion. \u201cThe report shows that the impact of climate change on biodiversity spans a whole plethora of taxa,\u201d Goldman said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dead whitebark pine. (Photo courtesy of Jacob W Frank and the National Park Service.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Goldman lives in high-altitude Montana, among forests of whitebark pine trees, another species included in the report. Already, 85% of the trees have disappeared from their historic range in the Pacific Northwest and Big Sky country, and 51% of standing whitebarks are dead\u2014 a result of infestations of beetles and fungi that are increasingly thriving in fluctuating, warmer conditions driven by climate change.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One of Goldman\u2019s ESC shirts depicts a polar bear on a shrinking ice cap. Occasionally he wears it while backpacking through the Rockies, where he increasingly observes Clark\u2019s nutcrackers and squirrels pecking frustratedly at dead whitebarks for nonexistent seeds and foods.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cEventually,\u201d Goldman said, \u201cthey (starving animals) will fall over and die as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Western ridged mussel. (Photo courtesy of Endangered Species Coalition.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Emilie Blevins, a senior conservation biologist with Xerces Society, an organization that advocates for invertebrate conservation, said she had<\/span> spent much of her professional career in Idaho and Washington\u2019s low-altitude banks and streams. She swims atop western ridged mussel beds, a now<\/span> rare sighting as warming waters and rising tides continue to shrink the bivalves\u2019 natural habitat, cutting their population nearly in half.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes Blevins stops to pick up a mussel, carefully removing its foot from sediment and holding the strong, triangular shape in her palm. Occasionally one will open its mouth, just for a moment, to squirt water at her, before sealing itself away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t take it personally,\u201d Blevins said. \u201cThese guys can live for over 60 years. I mean, they could be as old as your grandfather!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But these days, the absence of bivalves concerns her. How will the rivers survive without the mussels filtering water? How will the fish populations receive nutrients without the mussels concentrating food for them? How will the local tribes continue to practice their culture without the mussels for food and ornamentation? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWorking in conservation biology can be depressing,\u201d Blevins said. \u201cBut we still have the potential to make a difference. I\u2019m overjoyed when I still see western ridged mussel beds. They give me hope.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s plenty of science about how very essential a connection to nature is for our mental and emotional health,\u201d said Leda Huta, the ESC executive director. \u201cWe see ourselves as separate from nature. People forget that animals include humans, that nature includes humans. And that nature makes us happy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Christian Thorsberg is a science and environmental graduate student at Medill.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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