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WIND “FARMS” ARE THE NEW APEX PREDATORS

Wind farms are the ‘new apex predators’: Blades kill off 75% of buzzards, hawks and kites that live nearby, study shows

  • Predatory bird numbers are four times higher in areas away from win turbines
  • This is having a devastating ‘ripple effect’ across the food chain
  • It means numbers of certain small animals are growing unchecked

By HARRY PETTIT FOR MAILONLINE 

PUBLISHED: 11:00 EST, 5 November 2018 | UPDATED: 12:29 EST, 14 November 2018

Researchers studied lizard and bird populations at three wind turbine sites in India's Western Ghats. They found almost four times fewer buzzards, hawks and kites in areas with wind farms - a loss of about 75 per cent (file photo)

Wind turbines are the world’s new ‘apex predators’, wiping out buzzards, hawks and other carnivorous birds at the top of the food chain, say scientists.

A study of wind farms in India found that predatory bird numbers drop by three quarters in areas around the turbines.

This is having a ‘ripple effect’ across the food chain, with small mammals and reptiles adjusting their behaviour as their natural predators disappear from the skies.

Birds and bats were assumed to be most vulnerable to the rise of the landscape-blotting machines.

See link for more information, a must read article explaining the multi faceted impact of turbine killing machines on the complex natural relationships and food chains, and habitat.

About The Author

The Great Lakes Wind Truth is a collection of persons and groups around the Lakes, who discovered a mutual need to increase knowledge of the fragility of the Lakes and Basin systems, and who are completely committed to defeating any single industrial wind project single or multiple, that would upset delicate ecosystems, compromise water supplies, and negatively affect fishing, boating, migration routes, and the complex underwater life and lake bottom, that has already been compromised over time.

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