Impact of wind farms on birds: a review
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2012
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Islam is recognized as a broad approach of life whose teachings cover every likely human relationship including that with the environment. We, human beings, are permitted to employ the earth's resources land, water, air, minerals, flora, fauna, feathered creatures to accommodate our needs, but only in an approach that does not disturb ecological equilibrium and that does not discredit the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Wind farming is a mean of obtaining electric energy that does not produce air toxic wastes, effluence, greenhouse gasses, smog, fumes, litter, trash or other forms of environmental squalor associated with fossil fuel technologies. For a wind farm model, birds may be injured by direct impact with turbine blades, towers and/or transmission lines. This review explains the impact of wind farms on birds with an assessment of the probable bird species/groups that may fabricate problems by wind farm occurrences. It describes a couple of means by which wind farms can possibly have cogent effects on birds. Firstly they can pose a risk of collision, with birds soaring into rotor blades, resulting in increased mortality rates. Secondly they can cause loss of habitat, mainly through movement of birds from an area around the wind turbines. The degree and austerity of all impacts could best be lessened by the careful laying of proposed wind farms and by preparing a site management plan and design through numerous active strategies as explained in the paper
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Wind Farm, Birds, Collision, Habitat
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The Environ Monitor, Volume XII No.7& 8 page 4 1-46