Sentences with phrase «bird and bat mortality»

These studies show relatively lower bird and bat mortality.»

Tip o» the hat to M. Kay Barton Robert Johns — March 5, 2015 — American Bird Conservancy American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to institute a new system of pre-construction risk assessment and bird and bat mortality data collection in connection with hundreds of thousands of -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

«If thresholds of bird and / or bat mortality are reached, contingency plans can be put in place to reduce impacts and additional monitoring is conducted to ensure the contingency plans are effective,» Hedley wrote.

Heritage is committed to minimizing the impact of our activities on bird and bat populations by properly planning and siting our wind farms, conducting preconstruction use surveys and post-construction mortality surveys, using only state of the art technology and design, utilizing effective best management practices, and implementing adaptive management.

The fact is, many more birds (and bats) are dying at operating wind plants than we know, and as the turbines spread, mortality will increase.

Pattern Energy's use of radar, on their Kenedy ranch wind project in Texas, is a failure: thousands of birds and bats have been reported killed in the short history of this wind farm and thousands more remain unreported due to flawed mortality studies.

Using the higher but still underestimated level of mortality published by Smallwood in 2013, by 2030 our wind turbines would be killing over 3 million birds and 5 million bats annually.

We are thus really talking about an unsustainable death toll of 30 million birds and 50 million bats a year — and more still if we factor in other hide - the - mortality tricks documented by STEI.