Blown away: almost 70% of animals displaced from homes by wind-power developments

[rangerrebew]

 

filed:  January 16, 2024 • General News
Blown away: almost 70% of animals displaced from homes by wind-power developments
Credit:  Stuart Blackman. Published: January 15, 2024 at discoverwildlife.com ~~

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Wildlife and wind turbines are an uncomfortable mix. Rotating turbine blades can make short work of anything unlucky enough to collide with them, but direct mortality is only part of the story. Having reviewed the available evidence from around the world, biologists in Finland have found that 63 per cent of bird species, 72 per cent of bats and 67 per cent of terrestrial mammals are displaced from areas where turbines are installed.

Some of the most pronounced effects were found among owls, cranes and reindeer, which were displaced an average of 5km from wind-power developments.

Anne Tolvanen of the Natural Resources Institute Finland, a co-author of the study published in the journal Biological Conservation, says that more data on more species is required if the impacts of new wind farms on the most vulnerable species are to be minimised. “The problem is that the research always comes a bit too late,” she says.

https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/01/16/blown-away-almost-70-of-animals-displaced-from-homes-by-wind-power-developments/

[rangerrebew]

The lives of animals are only important to liberals and rinos only when they need to counter climate skeptics.

[catfish1957]

And the birds that are slaughtered in mass numbers.  The real ugly story the Enviro-whacko keep sweeping under the rug.

Want to know how bad they are.  My son had a friend with a Biology Major.  Her singular job on earth was too go from Turbine to Turbine, ,and thake census, and enumeration of dead birds and species.