What Will Happen To Local Wildlife Populations?
Wind Energy Is Compatible With Animals And Humans. Wind does have minor wildlife impacts, but they are small compared to other electric generation choices. (American Wind Energy Association Website, www.awea.org, Accessed 7/30/08) The Wind Energy Industrys Efforts To Reduce The Impact Of Wind Turbines On Birds Have Been Very Successful Wind Turbines And Birds Can And Do Coexist Successfully. The modern wind turbine is far less harmful to birds than are radio towers, tall buildings, airplanes and vehicles and numerous other manmade objects. A reasonable, conservative estimate is that of every 10,000 human-related bird deaths in the U.S. today, wind plants cause less than one. Even if wind were used to generate 100% of U.S. electricity needs, at the current rate of bird kills, wind would account for only one of every 250 human-related bird deaths. Individual bird deaths due to wind development will never be more than a very small fraction of those caused by other commonly accepted human
