{"id":293955,"date":"2024-01-06T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T11:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=293955"},"modified":"2024-01-06T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T11:45:21","slug":"wind-turbines-kill-too-many-birds-and-bats-how-can-we-make-them-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=293955","title":{"rendered":"Wind turbines kill too many birds and bats. How can we make them\u00a0safer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Dennis Ambler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even the greeniacs are starting to understand the damage to wildlife from wind turbines:<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, researchers are finding ways to reduce the toll.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About twice a month, many of Australia\u2019s wind farms receive an important visit from dogs and their handlers. The dogs are professionals and know exactly what they\u2019re there for. Eagerly, they run along transects under the wind turbines, sniffing until they catch a scent, then lying down, sitting or freezing once they\u2019ve located their targets: the carcasses of bats and birds that were killed by turbine collisions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For nearly two decades, wind and wildlife ecologist\u00a0<\/em>Emma Bennett\u2019s<\/em><\/a>\u00a0company, Elmoby Ecology, has been using canines to count the victims of wind turbines in southern Australia. The numbers are troubling. Each turbine yields four to six bird carcasses per year, part of an overall death toll from wind turbines that likely tops 10,000 annually for the whole of Australia (not including carcasses carried away by scavengers). Such deaths are\u00a0<\/em>in the hundreds of thousands in North America<\/em><\/a>. Far worse are the numbers of dead\u00a0<\/em>bats<\/em><\/a>: The dogs find between six and 20 of these per turbine annually, with tens of thousands believed to die each year in Australia. In North America, the number is close to a million.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In fact, some experts predict that turbine collisions <\/em>could drive certain bat species to extinction<\/em><\/a>. \u200b\u201cIt\u2019s the No. 1 threat facing our small microbats,\u201d Bennett says.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Numbers like these have caused <\/em>strife<\/em><\/a> in environmentalist circles, pitting those pushing for a <\/em>rapid buildout of renewable energy<\/em><\/a> \u2014 necessary to combat <\/em>climate change<\/em><\/a> \u2014 against those who oppose turbines due to their impact on wildlife; some bird conservation groups have frequently <\/em>obstructed wind energy projects<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.canarymedia.com\/articles\/wind\/wind-turbines-kill-too-many-birds-and-bats-how-can-we-make-them-safer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The article asks how we can make wind turbines safer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would suggest we start by imposing punitive fines on any wind farms who do not take adequate precautions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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