Conflict in full swing: Forest bats avoid large areas around fast-moving wind turbines

Conflict in full swing: Forest bats avoid large areas around fast-moving wind turbines

Not only do many bats die at wind turbines, the turbines also displace some species from their habitats over large areas. When the turbines are in operation at relatively high wind speeds, the activity of bat species that hunt in structurally dense habitats such as forests drops by almost 80 per cent within a radius … Read more