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.
Not exact matches
Worldwide, such facilities have been responsible for the deaths of 140,000 to 328,000
birds and 500,000 to 1.6 million
bats, raising questions about their effects on
population sustainability.
Insects are in turn a vital food source for fish, river
birds and bats, so where there are healthy insect
populations these other species also benefit.
These «mist nets» are remarkably effective at immobilizing
bats — so effective that many companies require a permit for purchase to prevent villagers from decimating
bat and bird populations.
Populations of wild bees
and other pollinating species, including butterflies
and moths,
birds and bats, are being pushed to extinction at startling rates.