Birds and bats at Wind Farm Jelinak, from baseline to operation
Environmental impact assessment, protection measures and post-construction bird and bat monitoring.
Environmental impact assessment, protection measures and post-construction bird and bat monitoring.
The challenge
The project had to assess and mitigate the wind farm’s impact on birds, bats, endangered plants, forest ecosystems and noise, from baseline conditions through construction and several years of operation.
A decade later, the task was to check the ongoing risk of bat collisions and whether the protection measures were working.
What was done
Oikon has worked at Jelinak in three phases, from the first baseline surveys to monitoring during operation.
Methods used
Outcome
Protection measures and a monitoring programme were put in place before, during and after construction.
Both later bat campaigns assessed the significance of the recorded bat casualties and proposed mitigation measures in a final report.
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