Post-construction Bird and Bat Fatality Monitoring for Onshore Wind Energy Facilities in Emerging Market Countries: Good Practice Handbook and Decision Support Tool

The International Finance Corporation (World Bank), European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and German Development Bank (KfW) have published a Good Practice Handbook on the topic of Post-construction Fatality Monitoring (PCFM) for birds and bats, which is accompanied by an automated Decision Support Tool (DST). Developed by a global team and their advisors, the objectives of these tools are to provide practical guidance for the design and implementation of PCFM methodology at wind energy facilities in emerging market countries and to promote the global standardization of PCFM methodologies so that fatality rates can be compared across sites, landscapes, countries, and regions. The Handbook and the DST have been designed to be compatible with the wind wildlife mortality estimation software, GenEst.