SAVE THE EAGLES INTERNATIONAL
ABOUT US
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Save The Eagles International (STEI) is a platform constituted by ornithologists and nature conservationists who advocate for a realistic assessment of the risk posed by windfarms to bird & bat populations around the world, and to the survival of many threatened species.
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Above picture: Short-toed Eagle (which feeds mainly on snakes) killed by a wind-turbine in Navarre, Spain. It is not the first, and won´t be the last. Several thousand eagles of various species have been killed by windfarms around the world to date - see ---> Eagles and wind farms : mortality statistics
At a time when most bird societies are actually helping by their actions (or lack thereof) the destruction by windfarms of rare bird and bat species and their habitats, Save The Eagles International (STEI) is one of the very few organizations standing up against this hypocrisy.
In the US, the Massachusetts Chapter of the Audubon Society first opposed a windfarm project offshore Cape Code saying it could kill up to 6,000 birds a year, including Roseate Terns (classified as an endangered species in the US). Several years and a multi-million-dollar windfarm/bird monitoring contract later, they endorsed the project. - Need we say more?
STEI has no website, no money, yet we manage to make our voice heard. One day, when people realize the environmental damage caused by the hugely expensive yet useless windfarms, we shall be vindicated. That won´t be any consolation, for the harm will have been done, and the extinction of a great many species will be unstoppable. Eagles, raptors in general, migratory birds, and many endangered bat species will be the first to go.
With windfarms, never in the history of mankind has so much destruction been inflicted upon Nature in such a short period of time.
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Above picture (courtesy of Dr Shawn Smallwood): this golden eagle, crippled by a wind turbine at Altamont Pass, California, walked up the hill trying to escape from the giant machines that struck him. He had to be put down.
Wounded birds that walk away are generally not found by searchers, and few windfarms are actually being monitored.
Founded by Mark Duchamp and other concerned conservationists in the month of August of 2009, STEI is selective about its membership, which is devoid of any fee or financial obligation of any kind. Members must be approved by the President.
When writing about bird conservation or about windfarms, members may sign: Member, Save The Eagles International
(the word "member" must show).
About STEI´s president:
- Academic Support to Mark Duchamp (2010) --->LINK (http://www.iberica2000.org/documents/eolica/Academic_Support_to_Mark_Duchamp.doc)
- Peer review (2004) of Mark Duchamp´s first significant paper (2003) ---> LINK (http://www.iberica2000.org/documents/eolica/Peer_review_1223_Everaert.pdf)
- Article in The Telegraph (2010) ---> LINK (http://www.iberica2000.org/documents/eolica/bird_mortality/The_Telegraph_wind_turbines_kill_eagles.doc)
Mark Duchamp´s most read articles:
- International Symposium on the Red Kite (2009) ---> LINK (http://www.iberica2000.org/Es/Articulo.asp?Id=4282)
- Chilling Statistics of birds killed by windfarms --->LINK (http://www.iberica2000.org/Es/Articulo.asp?Id=1875)
- Eagles killed by windfarms --->LINK (http://www.iberica2000.org/Es/Articulo.asp?Id=3071)
Latest action by STEI:
- Denouncing a consultant, a bird society and the Australian authorities --->LINK (http://www.iberica2000.org/Es/Articulo.asp?Id=4422)
>> Autor: Mark Duchamp (19/06/2010)
>> Fuente: Mark Duchamp
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