28.01.2012                      04.Schwat. 5772                      Bo

Umwelt:

Bats occupy Israeli army ghost bunkers

Abandoned steel forts along the Jordan River have turned into cozy caverns for bats on the endangered species list.

Abandoned Israeli army bunkers along the Jordan River are providing a lifeline for bats on the endangered species list, researchers say.
Soldiers left Israel's underground forts along the frontier with Jordan after a 1994 peace treaty between the two countries. With much of the former front line, some of it dotted by mine fields, still designated by the military as off-limits to civilians, bats swooped into the secluded and dark steel caverns….