windfarm birdstrike risk management

Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:17:47 +0900 (JST)

Thank you for sending the following email. I enjoyed jSMB much! I am a member of scientific committee for wind power plants and nature conservation by Japan Ministry of Environment and Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (English name undetermined http://www.env.go.jp/press/press.php?serial=7988). I also analyze with another graduate student "Bird strike risk assessment of Awara Windfarm Plan on Anser albifrons frontalis (listed "endangered" species in Japan)". Yasuo and I visited Altamont windfarms on August 4. I realize eagles do not avoid windfarms when they are looking for their prey. (Abstract revised)

Wind power is one of the powerful power generation technologies for the control of global warming. From 2004 to 2007, nine white tailed sea eagle collided with wind power generation at Hokkaido in Japan. We think that it is important to promote the wind power business as controlling the influence on valuable birds. So, we propose bird collision risk management model (AMUSE = Adaptive Management for Uncertain Strike Estimate of birds ). This model refers to the adaptive management technique of fishery resources. This technique changes the fishing intensity in response to the assumed fishery resource. AMUSE is constructed by considering the target bird population size and operation rate of wind power generation as the estimated resource and fishery intensity, respectively. After simulation, we will be able to estimate extinction risk of target species and corrected utilized capacity of the wind power generation. AMUSE is a tool of the risk communications.