Ecology Impact of Solar Farm on Bat’s Behavior

So, for the third part of this project, where we are interested in the ecology and conservation level, we wanted to check as much solar farm as we could in Hungary to see the effects on bats abundance around these smooth surfaces. Are they attracted to solar farms and using it as a foraging area? 

Source: Michael Mees

As much as human can utilize these energy in a ‘green energy’ way, but there are many researches have been done on the negative impact of solar farm development on the environment, as the numbers are booming, so are the concern that it may harm the wildlife there.

Solar farm take up large amount of lands, which result in habitat loss and environmental degradation, and it has shown to have an impact on birds. This big farms could look alike a big lake and fool birds to change their flight direction while migrating.

But what about bats? 

We will compare if there is any ecological impact of solar farm may have on bats foraging behavior, so experimental or observational research is urgently required and should be conducted.

Source: USFWS/Ann Froschauer