The intrigue of bird and a small mammal navigation without visual reference.
With all the work on wind farms in dairy and wildernss areas that Amanda and I do, one animal behavioral trait that constantly amazes us is the ability of birds […]
Category Archives: Wind farm
Contours of conflict – accounts of Verreaux’s Eagles with relation to wind farm development in South Africa.
In the midst of using modern technology to study Verreaux’s Eagle behavior and how it relates to wind farm development it is also important to admire the intricate interactions between a pair.
Digital tools for environmental field researchers and citizen scientists.
Endeavours to establish an environmental baseline of threatened species and habitat composition is vastly simplified with a range of digital tools for both field researchers and environmental advocacy groups.
Energy departure on the journey to decentralized production.
The security of the future requires a parallel pursuit of carbon negative energy production in conjunction with reduced energy consumption.
Green energy – still an environmental grim reaper.
Like a double edged sword, so much of modern technology is a fine balance between beneficial use and destruction. As traction for the replacement of carbon intense energy supply with […]
Power in the future – micro grids with battery storage.
Earlier this year when we had the onset of Eskom’s woe I made a prediction that within a decade we will see a decentralization of energy production and the proliferation […]
Protection of micro fauna on wind farms in South Africa
Baboon Spiders serve as apex micro predators and are ideal indicator species to measure the efficacy of environmental impact mitigation procedures on wind farm developments.
