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> TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The Biden administration declared the northern long-eared bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease.

> "White-nose syndrome is decimating cave-dwelling bat species like the northern long-eared bat at unprecedented rates," said Martha Williams, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

> Another species ravaged by the fungus is the tricolored bat, which the government proposed to classify as endangered in September.

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