Hawaii - Wind Farms Want Permission To Kill More Bats -- A Lot More [View all]
Wind turbines are proving to be more of a menace than expected to opeapea — endangered Hawaiian hoary bats, the islands’ only native land mammal.
As a result, three wind energy farms are requesting increases in the amount of bats they are allowed to “take.”
“Take,” according to the Endangered Species Act, includes harassing, harming, pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, killing, trapping, capturing or collecting the animals.
In 2012, the farms received federal and state permits that allowed them to take a designated number of the bats. Two of permits were supposed to be in effect for 20 years, the third for 25. Combined, they were allowed to take 92 during those periods, but they have already exceeded that number.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/08/wind-farms-want-permission-to-kill-more-bats-a-lot-more/
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