Electrocution is now the single most important cause of mortality for a number of endangered species, killing hundred of thousands of birds each year.
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IUCN Recommendation: Preventing electrocution and collision impacts of power infrastructure on birds | ALARMED by mounting evidence that a largely unaddressed silent epidemic of electrocution and collision of a wide diversity of birds and bats is resulting from inappropriately designed
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IUCN Recommendation: Prevención de los impactos de las infraestructuras eléctricas sobre las aves por electrocución y colisión | ALARMADO porque existen cada vez más pruebas de que se está produciendo una epidemia silenciosa y en gran medida desatendida de
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IUCN Recommendation: Prévenir limpact de lélectrocution et des collisions avec les infrastructures électriques sur les oiseaux | ALARMÉ par le nombre grandissant de preuves montrant qu’une épidémie silencieuse d’électrocution et de collisions d’une grande diversité d’oiseaux et de
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Конвенция по сохранению мигрирующих видов Руководство по применению средств, позволяющих устранить конфликт между мигрирующими птицами и сетями электроснабжения.
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The campaign to make our power lines safe for birds
This website exists to highlight the issue of avian electrocution as outlined in a motion accepted at the 2016 World Conservation Congress, to help those responsible for the management, financing and development of electrical infrastructure to understand the problem – and how they can help solve it.