SEEADLER-KILLER WINDKRAFTWERKE -
WENN DIE GIER NACH WINDENERGIE JEGLICHEN ARTENSCHUTZ MISSACHTET
Ein Interview mit dem Seeadlerexperten Alv Ottar Folkestad, der bzgl. des Adlerschutzes in Norwegen am meisten in Sorge wegen der Windkraftentwicklung ist.
In den letzten fünfeinhalb Jahren wurden 40 Seeadler auf Smola getötet, davon 11 in 2010.
Die Windkraftwerke auf Smola wurden inmitten der spektakulärsten Brutregion mit der höchsten Konzentration an Seeadlern errichtet.
Weitere Pläne zur Erstellung von Windindustriezonen in riesigen Dimensionen sehen die ursprünglichsten Küstenregionen Norwegens mit größten Adlervorkommen vor.
JR
A very informative interview on the WTE. Alv Ottar is arguably the foremost expert on the species in Europe. Don't miss this part:
"Markus Jais: What other threats to White-tailed Eagles do exist in Norway?
Alv Ottar Folkestad: During the history it has time and again been demonstrated that the main threats to the White-tailed Eagle are connected to human activity, directly or less directly. For about a century and a half it was persecution. Today it is land use in different ways, forestry, tourist industry, boating, and hiking, but what to me is a really scaring prospective is the way wind power development has been introduced in this country. The first wind power plant of significant size in Norway, on Smøla, is localized into the most spectacular performance of nesting concentration of White-tailed Eagles ever known. There are plans for making wind power into huge dimensions, and most of them localized in the most pristine coastal landscape of the most important areas of the White-tailed Eagle. During the last five and a half years, the wind power plant on Smøla has been killing 40 white-tailed eagles, 27 of them adult or sub adult birds, and 11 of them during 2010. There are no mitigating measures taken so far, and hardly any to think of, and there is no indication of adaptation among the eagles to such constructions. "
http://europeanraptors.org/interviews/interview_white_tailed_eagle_norway_alv_ottar_folkestad.html
