The study found that bats avoided areas up to 5km away from wind turbines, affecting their normal feeding and drinking behaviors.
'With increasing proximity to wind turbines, the activity of open space foraging bats at water bodies decreased by 53 percent,' highlighting the impact on their foraging.
'There is a certain tragedy in these results, because a measure to mitigate climate change has the unfortunate side effect that certain bats are less able to cope...'
'Habitats that are very important for species conservation should be given low priority or entirely excluded as sites for wind energy production,' warns the research team.
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