The ridge is home to three endangered bird species and a type
of endangered bat.
Some of the numerous questions raised by local citizens over the years include whether trees were improperly cleared, whether the plant encroached upon the habitat
of an endangered bat and whether it destroyed wetlands.
Not exact matches
The Thongaree's disc - nosed
bat, a newly - discovered species that lives in a small region
of Thailand, entered the list as critically
endangered — just one step from going extinct.
In a year filled with news
of devastating population losses among frogs,
bats, bees, shorebirds, and salmon, researchers in August reported good news for at least one
endangered species: the western lowland gorilla.
Belgium's 18 species
of bat are all
endangered by pesticides and less tolerant home owners.
Yet researchers have also found carcasses
of cave - hibernating
bats, including the little brown
bat and the northern long - eared myotis — two species that have been devastated by the fungal disease white nose syndrome and that are now being considered for protection under the
Endangered Species Act.
Colonies
of bats, including the
endangered lesser horseshoe
bat, may also be observed here.
Two
of the species are already listed as federally
endangered (Indiana
bat, Gray
bat).
Even more absurd and outrageous, the same Obama USFWS has given wind turbine companies permits to kill hundreds
of bald and golden eagles — and thousands
of raptors, other birds and
bats, many
of them threatened or
endangered — every year for the next 30 years.
Wind turbine installations butcher millions
of birds and
bats annually, but are exempt from
Endangered Species Act fines and penalties.
Consider just one example: the hundreds
of thousands
of rare birds and
endangered bats slaughtered in the US every year by the wind farms that Hillary Clinton applauds (and will no doubt go on subsidising) and that Donald Trump loathes (and will no doubt starve
of subsidies and cause to become as extinct as the Dodo).
As project development progresses we engage leading scientists to conduct a broad spectrum
of environmental assessments, such as wetland determinations, threatened and
endangered species surveys and consultations, and multi-year avian and
bat use surveys.
Wind turbine companies, officers and employees, however, are immune from prosecution, fines or imprisonment, regardless
of how many rare, threatened,
endangered or migratory birds and
bats they kill.
They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects
of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions
of birds and
bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from
endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions
of acres
of farmland and vast quantities
of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.
Ohio's Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO) and American Bird Conservancy (ABC) reject the assessment's claim that the planned Icebreaker wind energy facility would have little to no impact on birds and
bats, citing the critical importance
of Lake Erie to migratory birds such as the
endangered Kirtland's Warbler.
But most
of us are puzzled that so few «environmentalists» and FWS «caretakers» express concern about the countless bald and golden eagles, hawks, falcons, vultures, ducks, geese,
bats and other rare, threatened,
endangered and common flying creatures imperiled by turbine blades.
-LSB-...] Windfarms are basically giant bird Cuisinarts, killing many
endangered species
of raptors and
bats.
**** The rampant slaughter
of millions
of birds and
bats — including rare,
endangered and majestic species, like America's iconic bald and golden eagles — is one
of the many «inconvenient» facts that moves the wind industry to lie like fury and — when the corpses can no longer be hidden and the lying fails -LSB-...]
These turbines are also located in the known habitat
of the
endangered Indiana
bat.
The Chamber joined with a coalition
of business groups to file a reply brief in support
of its cross-motion for summary judgment in these two cases concerning the listing
of the northern long - eared
bat as a threatened species under the
Endangered Species Act.
The ruling halted the construction
of a 122 - turbine wind project in West Virginia due to the failure to study adequately the impacts
of the turbines on the
endangered Indiana
bat.