Tasmania Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:53:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Eagle monitoring technology to be deployed in Tasmanian wind farm https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eagle-monitoring-technology-to-be-deployed-in-tasmanian-wind-farm-20181218/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eagle-monitoring-technology-to-be-deployed-in-tasmanian-wind-farm-20181218/#respond Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:53:44 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=67669 One of the main environmental impacts of wind farms is that birds get killed when they collide with turbine rotors. This becomes even more serious when the wind farms are located within the distribution range of bird species already endangered or threatened with extinction. This is the case, for example, of the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles, […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eagle-monitoring-technology-to-be-deployed-in-tasmanian-wind-farm-20181218/feed/ 0 67669 Camera-Wearing Elephant Seals Collect Vital Climate Change Data https://www.greenoptimistic.com/camera-wearing-elephant-seals-collect-vital-climate-change-data-20130228/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/camera-wearing-elephant-seals-collect-vital-climate-change-data-20130228/#respond Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:10:38 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=34181 The Antarctic Climate and Ecosystem CRC in Tasmania, Australia has outfitted elephant seals with sensors and cameras to explore the depths of the ocean in the hopes of obtaining more information about climate change. The seals were chosen because they are able to get into places along the coastline where ships cannot possibly journey. Sensors […]

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