All posts tagged "bats"

Climate change remains a tremendous threat to many species of wildlife and their surrounding habitats. As a...

Wind turbine curtailment is a hot topic because it can have implications for bird and bat conservation...

The wind energy industry is bringing billions in private investment, and tens of thousands of well-paying jobs,...

The following op-ed appears in the Friday, September 4 edition of the Austin American-Statesman. Anderson: Hey Austin,...

Over the last several years the wind industry has experienced significant growth, however, unlike the early days...

Recently, several news outlets, including Wired magazine's website, picked up a release from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) concerning innovative approaches to reducing bat fatalities at wind farms.  While the stories that resulted were not especially critical of wind power, they did not provide the context in which its impacts should...

As part of its ongoing efforts to develop an environmentally responsible wind energy project, Power Company of Wyoming, LLC,  (PCW) said last week that it has started an intensive avian monitoring program at its proposed wind project site. A sophisticated avian radar system was installed in March on the Overland Trail Cattle...

News Release from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service – April 18, 2011  Georgia Parham (USFWS) 812”334”4261 x 1203, Georgia_Parham@fws.gov  Ellen Carey (AWEA), 202”249”7357 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, AWEA, Wind Developers Sign Agreement to Promote Endangered Species Conservation  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and wind energy industry companies, along with AWEA,...

Time magazine's blog has a short piece today on the economic impact from White-Nose Syndrome (WNS), the fungal disease that has been devastating colonies of bats in the Northeastern U.S. The article correctly notes that bats have an important role in agriculture, because of the fact that they consume billions of insect...