Karen Vanderwolf has spent her summer criss-crossing New Brunswick, hunting for bat poop.
Biologists discover small signs that bat populations are starting to recover from white-nose syndrome
Shane Fowler · CBC News
· Posted: Aug 26, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago
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Some of the province’s bat populations are starting to show signs of recovery after a decade of deadly white-nose syndrome. (CBC News)
Karen Vanderwolf has spent her summer criss-crossing New Brunswick, hunting for bat poop.
She’s been looking in spaces no one has bothered to check before: under bridges.
“I’ve put about 5,000 miles on my car,” said the biologist, a post-doctoral researcher at McMaster University and a research associate with the New Brunswick Museum.
As of early August, Vanderwolf had ventured under 311 New Brunswick bridges in the hunt for bat droppings, or guano.
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