Animal Issues
Animal Issues
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When the sea goes silent New research suggests a possible cause of dolphin and whale strandings: severe to profound hearing loss. Read more ... |
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Wind Farms Studies carried out on the impact of existing offshore turbines suggest many animals do not hear their low-frequency noise. Yet it's important to consider the potential impacts of offshore wind farm developments on coastal animals and how their habitat might be impacted by increased erosion or accretion. Read more... |
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Wind farm clue to horrific 'corkscrew' seal deaths Experts probing the so-called 'corkscrew deaths' of seals on Britain's East Coast believe the building of a huge offshore wind farm could be to blame. Read more... |
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Impacts of wind turbines on waterfowl Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) recognizes, however, that all forms of power generation entail environmental trade-offs, and that there are drawbacks to alternatives including wind turbine developments. Read more... |
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Animals / Birds / Bats It has to be remembered that within these sensitive habitats where almost no background noise is experienced, the low frequency noise and vibration projected (and transmitted through the earth) by industrial wind turbine operation is most certainly threatening or confusing to wildlife. Read more... |
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Friends of Animals Unfortunately, some existing wind farms are located on important bird migration areas, bat migration areas, or both. The result? Thousands of raptors and bats are killed when they fly into moving turbine blades. Read more... |
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Bat Lungs Explode "Beware: exploding lungs" is not a sign one would expect to see at a wind farm. But a new study suggests this is the main reason bats die in large numbers around wind turbines. Read more... |
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Drowning in Blood / Bats University of Calgary researchers provide answers to the mysterious deaths of bats and wind turbine facilities in souther Alberta, Canada. Read more... |
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Batting Thousands in Wisconsin The forty-four turbine site located along the forested Backbone mountaintop was found to be slaughtering bats at annual rates of over 50 bats per turbine with some estimates placing the count at close to 100 bats. High mortality was also observed that year at the Meyersdale wind farm in Pennsylvania, another FPL project. Read more... |
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Marine Animals Tidal power from free-running, propeller driven generators is not a free energy gift. There will be environmental costs extracted from the fisheries and tourism of Nova Scotia, which your readers should know. Read more... |
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Endangered Species In Canada, more than 500 wild animal and plant species are considered "at risk" according to the Committee on the Status of Endangered Species in Canada (COSEWIC). Nearly 40 percent of these species are found in Ontario. Some urban and rural activities, including expanding residential development, pose significant threats to Ontario's wildlife. Read more... |
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Habitat Fragmentation A particular wind turbine company in the area has been claiming that they will only place towers on reclaimed strip mines in Western Maryland, reusing land stripped of resources. It sounds like a good idea, turning an abused piece of land into something productive and supposedly environmentally friendly. But that's not the whole truth, and it's not just about the deaths of migrating birds and bats. It's about habitat fragmentation and the effects these windmills, and indeed any major development, will have on forested lands. Read more... |
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Impact on Wildlife Do birds nest on wind turbines? Read more... |
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Animals and Wind Several dozen people who turned out for a public forum last night on the effects of wind turbines on wildlife witnessed something seldom seen in the three-year plus debate over the Cape Wind project - expert opinion devoid of hyperbole and emotion. Read more... |
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Effects on Animals I've been woken up by the turbines .I can also hear the sound of killdeer outside, and it occurs to me that this isn't the first time I've heard them at strange hours of the night. They seem especially agitated right now, and it strikes me that they, these birds that roost on the ground, are feeling what I'm feeling, perhaps to an even larger degree since they have direct contact to the ground. Read more... |
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Avian Cuisinarts Wind developers minimize the risk turbines pose to birds by pointing out that more birds are killed each year by cars, cats, buildings, etc. than turbines. What they don't point out is that there are many millions of cars, cats and buildings, while there are only thousands of turbines currently operating in the world. Read more... |
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Arran Lake Study Commercial wind power is intended to supply renewable energy without harming the environment. But biologists have discovered growing evidence of harm to migratory birds and long-term degrading effects on the quality of sensitive wildlife habitats. Read more... |
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Against Wind Farms The following "open letter" offers a good example of how governments cynically sacrifice our avian biodiversity (and much more) to help wind farm developers. Cheating with science, manipulating mortality predictions, covering up bird & bat-kill statistics, these are current practices in Scotland and most European countries. Read more... |
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Careless Eagles A dead Bald Eagle was found about 40 metres from an industrial wind turbine in Norfolk County last year. The eagle's body was sent to Bird Studies Canada and then to the MNR. An examination of the carcass showed it had injuries consistent with a sudden impact while toxicology tests indicated it was otherwise healthy. "Sault Star" Read more... |
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Wildlife Hinders Wind Development Two recent high-profile decisions on wind development and wildlife mean that developers looking to develop wind farms on sites considered endangered bat territory in the Eastern United States might consider getting an Incidental Take Permit (ITP) to eliminate any risk, while Wyoming's sage grouse rules still dominate in Western U.S. Read more... |
