Wind farm ecology studies failing to predict bat deaths

8th November 2016


Ecological assessments of wind farms fail to adequately predict collision threats to bats, according to academics at the University of Exeter.

Sniffer dogs used to locate dead bats at 29 windfarms found 194 carcasses a month, with the number ranging from one to 64. The main casualties were the common pipistrelle and soprano pipistrelle, the

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