The paper presents a mapping tool aiming to identify and minimise potential conflicts between onshore wind energy development and wildlife conservation in Lithuania. It merges current information on the distribution, conservation status and sensitivity of birds and bats to wind power with an integrated evaluation of wind resources (modelled wind speed), special planning status and technical perspectives of wind energy development. The paper includes assessment of the selected wildlife species which were described as sensitive to wind power (69 breeding and 43 migratory bird species and 17 bat species bats in the country). Used species level information allowed the precise identification of sensitive territories and might be used to mitigate negative wind farm effects using special measures based on species behavior. Finally, we delivered overlaps as possible conflicts among the most promising wind farm areas and the areas with high sensitivity in relation to bird and bat distribution. These overlaps point to the required attention and relevant decisions that are needed to ensure sustainable development of wind energy throughout the country. We suggest this tool for initial determination of appropriate areas for wind energy development in the country and as supplement to Environmental Impact Assessment.

中文翻译：

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立陶宛的风能开发和野生动植物保护：冲突评估的绘图工具。

本文提出了一种制图工具，旨在识别和最小化立陶宛的陆上风能开发与野生动植物保护之间的潜在冲突。它将有关鸟类和蝙蝠的分布，保护状况和对风能的敏感性的当前信息与风资源的综合评估（模拟风速），特殊规划状况和风能开发的技术观点相结合。该文件包括对被描述为对风力敏感的选定野生动植物物种的评估（该国有69种繁殖和43种候鸟物种蝙蝠和17种蝙蝠物种蝙蝠）。使用的物种级别信息可以精确识别敏感地区，并且可以基于物种行为采用特殊措施来减轻风电场的负面影响。最后，我们在最有希望的风电场地区和对鸟类和蝙蝠分布高度敏感的地区之间尽可能避免了重叠。这些重叠之处表明需要注意和作出相关决定，以确保全国风能的可持续发展。我们建议使用此工具来初步确定该国风能发展的适当领域，并作为环境影响评估的补充。