Dozens of wind turbines are rising in the area of \u200b\u200bforest deer – whether nature will stay on the feet, asks the Nature Conservation Union
The wind farms designed for Ostrobothnia are located in the forest deer population. The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation is concerned about the situation.
Energy company OX2 announced last week of the large wind farms to be built in Southern and Central Ostrobothnia.
Halsua, Isojoki and Karijoki, a total of about 70 power plant wind farms are directly hit by a forest deer.
The forest deer is classified as a species to be considered. The eye -minded is an almost endangered species whose population has receded or remarkably sparse.
Thus, the habitats of forest deer should not be handled so that the threat of the species increases. However, the challenge is the lack of knowledge.
– There is no scientific research information on how the forest deer reacts to wind power. Studies are just underway, Tolvanen says.
“A little restraint”
– There must be reproductive and rest areas, areas of food procurement and ecological connections between the areas.
When the habitats of the forest deer become fragmented due to, for example, construction, drainage or forest felling, it often has extensive and long -term interactions that should always be properly determined, Halmeenpää points out.
There is a risk that without proper combination of combined effects, the whole will be drowned.
– A little restraint. Carefully evaluate and minimize possible environmental damage. It must also be accepted that unpublished projects must be left unstructured. This can ensure that no harmful long -term effects on the forest can be caused, Halmenpää says.
Halmeenpää is pleased that regional planning is now being viewed in terms of wind power production.
The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation as such does not oppose additional construction of renewable energy.
However, according to Halmenpää, we are now in a situation where there is a great deal of renewable energy to attract new, much electricity -consuming investment projects to Finland.
– This may leave Finnish nature on the feet. Yes, there is more wind power here, but it has to be planned so that the child does not go with the wash water, says Halmeenpää.
Forest -deer survey is only going on
Luke is undergoing a five -year project together with fourteen wind power companies. It explores the effects of wind power on so -called Directive, ie wolf, forest deer and eagle, and reindeer herding and reindeer herding.
Luke estimates that there are about 2,000 forest lines in the Suomenselä wintering area. The stock has remained stable since 2021.
Last summer, forest deer were stabbed and the first results of the effects of wind turbines on them are expected this year.
According to Anne Tolvanen, there is already research on the reindeer in wind power areas in Sweden and Norway.
– Females and calves avoid these areas because the sound of wind power interferes with the communication of the Vasa and Emo. It makes it difficult to observe beasts, Anne Tolvanen knows.
On the other hand, wind farms provide a good shelter for forest deer from insects because of the open and air flow in the wind farm areas.
There is already information about the birds
There are already ways to prevent birds in wind farms.
For example, in some places, attention balls have been drawn to prevent birds from colliding with them. Bird radius has also been tested in the Tahkoluoto Maritime Wind Park in Pori.
According to Anne Tolvanen, bats can encounter wind turbine rotors and forest birds mostly in the frames.
\”Forest birds dady think of the white pillar into an opening in the dark,\” he thinks.
Abroad, it has been tried to paint the trunks of wind turbines to be more visible to prevent bird damage.
According to Tolvanen, there are no studies on the behavior of wolves, but according to a coyote study in North America, wolves could even benefit from wind farms.
\”They have a lot of roads that make it nice to jerk looking for a prey,\” says Tolvanen.