Post by New Bradfordsburg on Jan 17, 2014 4:24:50 GMT -5
Turbines blamed for thousands of dead bay mongeese in Point Breeze
Nadalie Horanaja, of Rosewood Village in Point Breeze, holds up a dead bay mongoose found in her yard near the base of a wind turbine.
SAMANTHALAN - Thousands of slain and mangled bay mongeese lined the walls of an Evergreen Republican animal sanctuary Thursday, bringing animal-control officers to tears as they counted the casualties collected from Point Breeze’s new wind turbines.
The dead birds were recovered following a two-day investigation, involving 4,000 government employees from New Bradfordsburg, to determine exactly how many of the treasured birds had been killed.
“We counted 192 bay mongeese at Rosewood Village and if you go into the woods along Route 2, just over the border, it’s a nightmare,” said Marcus Bellhorn, an advanced ecologist for New Bradfordsburg’s Animal Advocacy Mission. "Dead birds everywhere you look."
Bellhorn continued with the death-toll counts.
“Add that 192 to another 1,000 or so from along Route 2, plus scattered findings around the countryside, and you have an epidemic,” Bellhorn said.
Massive wind-turbine farms in Southeastern Point Breeze, which have since been shut down by the government, were estimated to have killed thousands of bay mongeese during their short lifespan along the prized bird’s natural migration route.
Bay mongeese, the national animal of New Bradfordsburg, spend their summers in the estuaries around Rochester, at the mouth of the River Monaca, in Point Breeze. According to the New Bradfordsburg Department of Game, nearly 60 percent of the existing bay mongoose population migrates through Southeastern Point Breeze and flies at an average height of 400 feet.
The standard height for wind turbines constructed in Point Breeze recently was 402 feet.
"It was a perfect storm of circumstance that caused all these birds to die," Bellhorn said.
William Mellon, the controversial president who implemented the turbine policy, released a statement earlier this week.
Point Breeze’s leader said previous studies showed the migratory patterns of bay mongeese as “passing over the Dux National Forest, instead of through the town of Samanthalan and Rosewood Village."
"We see now that that assessment was incorrect," Mellon's statement said
In addition to researchers, residents of Southeastern Point Breeze have also been turning in dead bay mongeese.
“This one made it to our yard and just died,” Nadalie Horanaja, of Rosewood Village, said as she held up a bay mongoose carcass. “It got sliced, glided to a landing spot and bled out.”
Horanaja, like many other residents, has been turning in dead bay mongeese to local fire stations to be counted among the dead by New Bradfordsburg researchers.
Dux Bradford John has postponed an upcoming summit with Mellon in Point Breeze, the city named after the nation which it is capital of.
“As the numbers of dead bay mongeese are being counted, I feel it is inappropriate to meet with Mellon at this time,” the Dux said. “I call for Point Breeze’s government to conduct a full investigation into the sources from where our neighbors received erroneous information.”
Since that statement, New Bradfordsburg has reclassified the bay mongoose to an extremely endangered species following new legislation, passed yesterday.
According to the New Bradfordsburg Department of Game, only 7,143 bay mongeese remained in the wild as of January 1, 2014.
“I hope the operators of these turbines will be held accountable by Point Breeze,” the Dux said. “They should be forced to financially contribute to our efforts to rehabilitate the bay mongoose.”
The Dux said “20 years of bay mongoose population growth may have been wiped out” in his statement and pointed out that Point Breeze’s erecting of the turbines coincided with the migratory patterns of the now endangered bird.
“Even if research did show that this bird’s migration was further west, we believe discretion should have been used and these turbines should have been erected after the birds had relocated back to New Bradfordsburg’s southern shores,” the statement from the Dux said. "That did not happen."
Randovia Times is a collaboratively, state-owned media organization in Randovia, New Bradfordsburg.
Nadalie Horanaja, of Rosewood Village in Point Breeze, holds up a dead bay mongoose found in her yard near the base of a wind turbine.
SAMANTHALAN - Thousands of slain and mangled bay mongeese lined the walls of an Evergreen Republican animal sanctuary Thursday, bringing animal-control officers to tears as they counted the casualties collected from Point Breeze’s new wind turbines.
The dead birds were recovered following a two-day investigation, involving 4,000 government employees from New Bradfordsburg, to determine exactly how many of the treasured birds had been killed.
“We counted 192 bay mongeese at Rosewood Village and if you go into the woods along Route 2, just over the border, it’s a nightmare,” said Marcus Bellhorn, an advanced ecologist for New Bradfordsburg’s Animal Advocacy Mission. "Dead birds everywhere you look."
Bellhorn continued with the death-toll counts.
“Add that 192 to another 1,000 or so from along Route 2, plus scattered findings around the countryside, and you have an epidemic,” Bellhorn said.
Massive wind-turbine farms in Southeastern Point Breeze, which have since been shut down by the government, were estimated to have killed thousands of bay mongeese during their short lifespan along the prized bird’s natural migration route.
Bay mongeese, the national animal of New Bradfordsburg, spend their summers in the estuaries around Rochester, at the mouth of the River Monaca, in Point Breeze. According to the New Bradfordsburg Department of Game, nearly 60 percent of the existing bay mongoose population migrates through Southeastern Point Breeze and flies at an average height of 400 feet.
The standard height for wind turbines constructed in Point Breeze recently was 402 feet.
"It was a perfect storm of circumstance that caused all these birds to die," Bellhorn said.
William Mellon, the controversial president who implemented the turbine policy, released a statement earlier this week.
Point Breeze’s leader said previous studies showed the migratory patterns of bay mongeese as “passing over the Dux National Forest, instead of through the town of Samanthalan and Rosewood Village."
"We see now that that assessment was incorrect," Mellon's statement said
In addition to researchers, residents of Southeastern Point Breeze have also been turning in dead bay mongeese.
“This one made it to our yard and just died,” Nadalie Horanaja, of Rosewood Village, said as she held up a bay mongoose carcass. “It got sliced, glided to a landing spot and bled out.”
Horanaja, like many other residents, has been turning in dead bay mongeese to local fire stations to be counted among the dead by New Bradfordsburg researchers.
Dux Bradford John has postponed an upcoming summit with Mellon in Point Breeze, the city named after the nation which it is capital of.
“As the numbers of dead bay mongeese are being counted, I feel it is inappropriate to meet with Mellon at this time,” the Dux said. “I call for Point Breeze’s government to conduct a full investigation into the sources from where our neighbors received erroneous information.”
Since that statement, New Bradfordsburg has reclassified the bay mongoose to an extremely endangered species following new legislation, passed yesterday.
According to the New Bradfordsburg Department of Game, only 7,143 bay mongeese remained in the wild as of January 1, 2014.
“I hope the operators of these turbines will be held accountable by Point Breeze,” the Dux said. “They should be forced to financially contribute to our efforts to rehabilitate the bay mongoose.”
The Dux said “20 years of bay mongoose population growth may have been wiped out” in his statement and pointed out that Point Breeze’s erecting of the turbines coincided with the migratory patterns of the now endangered bird.
“Even if research did show that this bird’s migration was further west, we believe discretion should have been used and these turbines should have been erected after the birds had relocated back to New Bradfordsburg’s southern shores,” the statement from the Dux said. "That did not happen."
Randovia Times is a collaboratively, state-owned media organization in Randovia, New Bradfordsburg.