From the way we catch food, to how we generate energy, human activity inevitably impacts on wildlife and the environment in unintended ways. So this week we’re looking at ways to reduce this collateral damage. We visit a windfarm in Finland that's using AI to predict bird flight paths and stop individual turbines before they cause damage. And we join some fishermen in Cyprus, who are using special green lights to warn turtles away from their nets. Presenter: Myra Anubi Producer/Cyprus reporter: Claire Bates Finland reporter: Erika Benke Editor: Jon Bithrey Sound mix: Hal Haines
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I'm Mayra Anubi, and this is People Fixing the World from the BBC World Service, where every week we get to find out about new ideas that are changing our world for the better.
Now, if there's something that's been clear on this show, it's that human beings can be destructive, driving cooking, building, farming, even fishing.
Almost everything we do leaves a harmful trail behind us, even when we don't mean to.
So this week we're looking at a couple of ways of reducing this collateral damage.
We'll visit a wind farm that's using some special technology to save birds.
But first, let's find out about a scheme that's reducing harm to turtles.
Fishing is a vital industry for the countries that surround the Mediterranean Sea.
However, fishing nets often trap a lot of other marine creatures, which is known as bycatch.
Now, turtles are a big bycatch casualty, with around 40,000 killed in the region every year, and several thousand are dying.
Around the coast of Cyprus, hatchlings spend.
The first few years of their life traveling around in deep waters.
But when they come back to the coast, they need to find safe areas where they can feed.
Instead, they're getting caught in nets.
So it's at that really early developmental stage that they're getting wiped off the map.
They need another about 10 to 15, perhaps 20 years of development until they reach adulthood.
That's Robin Snape from the Society for the Protection of Turtles or Sport in Northern Cyprus.
Now, he realized by protecting turtlenecites, they were able to increase the number of bits baby turtles reaching the sea.
However, these young turtles were being caught and killed before they were old enough to breed themselves.
So he came up with a bright idea that could help.