Alberta is forging ahead with efforts to protect bats now endangered by a deadly fungus expected to devastate colonies across the province. 

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 and put infested populations on the brink.

Three years after the fungus that causes the disease was first detected in Alberta, the provincial government has published a draft recovery plan that aims to minimize …