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🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | So you've arrived. |
0:03.0 | head to the brasserie, then the terrace, cocktail? |
0:07.0 | Don't mind if I do. |
0:10.0 | You raise your glass to another guest because you both know the holidays just beginning. |
0:16.0 | And you're only in Terminal 3. |
0:19.0 | Welcome to Virgin Atlantic's unique upper class clubhouse experience, |
0:23.8 | where you'll feel like you've arrived before you've taken off. |
0:28.4 | Virgin Atlantic, see the world differently. |
0:40.2 | How much is a wild bat worth? |
0:43.2 | Bats are good, bats are friendly, bats eat pests. |
0:46.1 | But can we actually put a dollar number on that goodness and friendliness and pest eating? |
0:51.5 | This is a question that Amy Ando started asking herself a few years |
0:55.6 | ago at a conference because there were some people there telling her about |
0:59.2 | something called White Nose Syndrome. The fungus grows on the faces of bats while they're hibernating. |
1:06.0 | It's called white nose syndrome because they end up with fuzzy white stuff on their noses. |
1:10.0 | It seems to irritate the bats, upsetting their natural hibernation rhythms. |
1:14.4 | This is highly fatal to bats and has been decimating bat populations. |
1:19.0 | We have seen populations of bats in eastern colonies decline in some cases to 100%. |
1:26.0 | It is a wildlife wipeout. |
1:28.0 | Literally millions and millions of bats in the last two decades have died. |
1:34.0 | Now, there are potentially some solutions here, |
1:36.5 | like ways to keep bats from getting this fungal infection and dying. |
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