NWCOA Bat Standards

NWCOA Bat Standards NWCOA® has developed these Standards of Practice in hopes that they will be the most widely-accepted bat management guidelines in use by NWCOs.

The National Wildlife Control Operators Association, (NWCOA®) is a 501(c)6, nonprofit trade association organized exclusively as a mutual benefit association to assist persons or organizations providing commercial wildlife damage management and control activities. Following its primary mission, NWCOA® is active in training, educating and promoting competency, service and integrity to the members

of the wildlife damage management industry. NWCOA® is the only trade association representing private wildlife control operators on a national basis. After receiving feedback from the public, regulatory authorities, and wildlife control operators, NWCOA has identified a need to define and quantify what constitutes a professional bat roost mitigation from a structure for property owners. NWCOA has also identified a need to inform service providers regarding the impact of White Nose Syndrome on existing bat populations and the importance of resolving human/bat conflicts in a manner that both protects human health and provides a conservation-minded approach to protecting our wild bat resources. The purpose of this document is to define the National Wildlife Control Operators Association (NWCOA®) Standards of Practice and to establish a minimum uniform standard for Wildlife Control Operators (WCO) in the performance of work related to bats and resolving conflicts between humans, bats, and structures. It is NWCOA’s® intent that these standards of practice for bat management by WCO’s will be accepted and recognized by governmental regulators and professional groups as the minimum definitive and technical standard for professional performance. NWCOA® has developed these Standards of Practice in hopes that they will be the most widely-accepted bat management guidelines in use by the nuisance wildlife control industry and related professions and be applied to all entities that provide wildlife damage management services on a commercial basis by regulatory authorities.

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06/24/2019

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06/18/2019

Adjusting for their size, most of the longest lived mammals are bats.

04/25/2019

Bats are not as disease-ridden as the stigma suggests, according to new research. Previous studies have suggested that typically about 10 percent of bats taken by the public to be tested have rabies but new research says the number is closer to one per cent regardless of species or where the bats ro...

Gregg Schumaker
04/24/2019

Gregg Schumaker

OLYMPIA – White-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that affects hibernating bats, has been confirmed for the first time in a western long-eared bat (Myotis evotis) in King County, Washington.

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