Alberta is forging ahead with efforts to protect bats… the little brown myotis and northern myotis are under threat due to white-nose syndrome, a disease that has killed millions of bats in North America. Three years after the fungus that causes the disease was first detected in Alberta, the government published a draft recovery plan that aims to minimize losses and help the species eventually rebound. …A small number of bats have shown a natural resistance to the fungus. The hope is that those survivors can eventually rebuild the population, Wilkinson said. …Kennedy Halvorson with the Alberta Wilderness Association, said the recovery plan should include more enforceable limits on industry. The association has called for stricter limits on pesticide use to bolster insect populations that bats rely on for food, and for binding restrictions on the forestry sector to better safeguard bat habitats.