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bAWARE could have saved these lives
- Two Dead Eagles, Three Days Apart: The Threat of Power LinesPhilippine Eagle Foundation, 8 October 2026
More: bird electrocution on power lines, and collisions with power lines and wind turbines
Cases, each with its source: running wind farms stopped, fined or put under conditions; grid operators prosecuted or ordered to act; projects refused, reduced or delayed over protected birds.
bAWARE in the press
ANFA, Chasse au Vol 2025–2026 (yearbook), pp. 71–77
bAWARE : Une approche révolutionnaire pour protéger les rapaces de l’électrocution et des éoliennes
In English: bAWARE: A game-changing way to save raptors from electrocution and wind turbines hazards
Gunter Schoech
La Provence (AFP), 10 May 2024
Au Kenya, l’opiniâtre travail de sauvegarde des rapaces, menacés d’extinction
In English: In Kenya, the dogged work of saving birds of prey threatened with extinction. A portrait of Simon Thomsett, bAWARE’s co-inventor.
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- As mild and subconscious as possible, but if needed as intolerable as necessary
- The bird learns to avoid it, instead of learning to ignore it
- We try the subliminal reflex level first (unconscious reaction that can’t be avoided, but also does not mean pain: Think about when the doctor tests your reflex in the knee with a tiny hammer).
- If needed, we are willing to go to the conscious and pain level, which the bird can not ignore nor tolerate. It’s totally survivable and a very small price to pay compared to mortal hazard / death
- We turn passive tags into active tags
- The one carrying the payload also gets an immediate pay out
- It works similar to a vaccination: Only the vaccinated individual is made safe, but for life and everywhere. Travellers get a yellow fever shot before going into an infested area, and some countries ask for proof of it at the border, instead of insisting the entire country be made free of yellow fever first.
- With yellow fever, eradicating the danger (the transmitting mosquitoes) is not possible, only outbreak control in heavily affected areas. This is like retrofitting the most dangerous poles for everyone locally, while making the most endangered bird specimens safe with bAWARE. Two fully complementary solutions, both needed.
- The bird decides. We always take it from the bird’s perspective.
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Since the memorable epiphany in Kenya, bAWARE development takes place in Europe and Asia. The combination of high voltage discharges and ultra-sensitive antennae, operations on a very limited energy budget, cramped into a tiny and very light package, while rugged to serve many years in outdoor use, is a true engineering challenge.
Many major breakthroughs have already been made, and they are patent pending.
Working prototypes for every module of the design have been achieved. Miniaturization and integration work is progressing steadily, and has further proven the concept is feasible in a single tiny unit.
The research and development till market ready units become available is ensured: bAWARE is becoming a reality!
Once the units start coming off the line, we need YOUR help.
