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The Slaughter of Migratory Bats by Wind Turbines
With wind power booming around the world—in Germany alone, nearly 20,000 wind-energy installations have been built since 1990—researchers are seeing a marked increase in dead bats. The turbines simply rotate their blades too quickly for the winged mammals to avoid. The deaths have led to a flurry of research on migratory bats and their behavior. Indeed, at a January conference in Berlin on migratory bats, wind farms were a dominant theme. Scientists are racing to figure out what brings the bats in contact with wind turbines, and what can be done to save them. There are no easy answers, in part because little is known about migratory bats. And without concrete data, persuading government regulators and energy companies to relocate proposed wind farms, let alone change the operations of existing turbines or shuthem down, is difficult.
Deadly Flights
Science 24 July 2009:
Vol. 325. no. 5939, pp. 386 – 387
DOI: 10.1126/science.325_386
September 17th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
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