2022
Europe
TransMit is an interactive toolkit which aims to help those involved in planning, installing, and maintaining grid infrastructure to choose the best measures to minimise avian collisions and electrocutions, based on current scientific evidence.
Highlights
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Offers guidance on mitigation at global scale in an easily digestible, user-friendly, and interactive format.
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‘Evidence library’ summarises and categorises broad research on methodology, species, location, and efficacy.
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Can help grid infrastructure managers to choose the most effective power line mitigation techniques.
Main Information
To combat the risk of bird mortality through electrocution and collision with power lines, measures which improve detectability and decrease risk are key – however guidance is often lengthy, dense, and inaccessible. This lack of overview also makes it difficult for grid operators to compare devices’ effectiveness and species-relevance, and therefore to take the most appropriate decision.
In response to this need, BirdLife International, with the aid of Safe Flyways Energy project, created the TransMit tool. It contains an in-depth analysis of relevant global research, alongside clear illustrations and an easy-to-use decision flowchart, which guides users to the most appropriate mitigation technique. The tool was funded by the MAVA Foundation and will be disseminated by the Energy Task Force of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS).
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