Well, thanks to taking mycology this semester, I learned something. White nose syndrome affects 6 species of bats in North America and with the way things are going, they will become extinct. It's caused by a fungus that disrupts the breathing usually of the bat and causes it to wake up frequently when it is supposed to be hibernating in the winter. This causes wasted energy for the bat to be looking for food in the winter. Essentially, the bats die of starvation. IIN to be upset about this? Most focus is on how humans affect the environment but there are other things going on right under our noses...or the bat's noses.
One of the saddest things I heard was that two hundred years ago, whales could communicate on wavelengths that encircled the earth's oceans. They kind of had their own internet. The rise of shipping interfered with this and eventually deafened them.
I know it's difficult for some people to care so the analogy is that another species on the planet cuts off all our access to the internet and there's nothing we can do about it. All the people you know by email, everyone whose name you know here, you'll never see or hear from them again and their lives will be lived in a small bubble of their immediate surroundings. That's kind of what we did to whales. Worst thing is, nobody cares.
I like bats and I think your story about them is really tragic.
Very similar to Chestnut Blight that decimated the once important American Chestnut, another imported fungal disease.