The construction of an airport contains multiple procedures, including the location, geographic factors, and residential areas. It is these points that dramatically influence both airports and birds’ surviving.

Today, the author of this article would like to introduce several cases on foreign conflictions between birds’ protection and airports establishment.

According to a report in December 2019, the to-be-built Montijo Airport was pretty near certain specially protected areas and important birds’ conservation, where there are thousands of Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits, Limosa Black-tailed Godwits, flamingos, and more.

Since this airport will be equipped with a extremely long runway enabling planes to take off and land frequently, it will definitely influence the daily life of birds in the neighborhood, causing great noise, which makes birds fly and land incessantly and consume a quite amount of energy previously install stored for migration.

The birds mentioned above will migrate regularly. However, with new threats from huge machineries, these birds will lose fat usually stored for energy consumption in migratory activities. What is even worse is that, the authority of this airport have not yet realized the potential destructiveness of airport construction upon birds. It is believed that building the runway for planes and emitting chemicals will certainly ruin birds’ habitats; to eradicate birdstrike events, faculty for airport security are pretty likely to resort to guns or fireworks, which proves to be the most savage and effective approach to repel or shot birds.

Correspondingly, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds also convey its concern for this airport, as it ignored waders’ irreplaceable significance for biodiversity and stability of eco-system. RSPB provides a new report to enhance its standing point: birds affected by local planes not only live in these habitats, but also travel to dozens of national-level conservations and important bird protection areas, which can cause a vicious circle and indirectly affect waders in those places.

Recently, CBCGDF published several articles on birdstrike management and protection of rare birds. Since the concept of ecological civilization was extensively learned by masses, it is high time we reconsider the relationship between human and nature.

Original Chinese article:  https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/I54MuM5LSn9JIjVIzIbwLQ
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