On Sunday’s Show, Lori welcomed three acclaimed guests.
The first topic revolved around the lawsuit recently filed by the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) against the Department of the Interior, which is now able to approve 30-year permits for wind farms. Dr. Michael Hutchins, National Coordinator, Bird Smart Wind Energy Campaign, American Bird Conservancy, explained what motivated the suit, how wind farms harm raptors, and what ABC hopes to achieve in this action.
Following that, Mark Duchamp, President, Save the Eagles International, joined Lori to give his perspective on the suit, and covered a myriad of conservation problems associated with wind energy.
The second topic of the show was wild bison herd management in Europe. Captive raised bison from the British Isles have just been released to join a herd in Romania, ostensibly to improve the gene pool and increase the size of the herd. Is this practice proven to actually work? And are zoos justified in claiming that release of captive bred animals into the wild is good conservation? Professor Marc Bekoff provided his perspective.
And hot animal news from around the globe.
Dr. Marc Bekoff
Mark Duchamp
Dr. Michael Hutchins
Thank you for the opportunity given me to defend wildlife against one of the worse aggressions of man against biodiversity: wind farms. And my apologies for not being concise enough, which led to a somewhat abrupt end to my comments – telephone does not transmit sign language, unfortunately.
Some may find this interesting:
Windfarms kill over 100 million birds and bats a year
http://wcfn.org/2014/05/21/bullet-news-3/
Mark Duchamp