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YVR SUSTAINABILITY

YVR has an entire department and staff dedicated to sustainability and green initiatives in their airport. They have six different sections:

1)     Solar Powered Hot Water: Their building water heating systems are powered by solar energy.

http://www.yvr.ca/en/blog/posts/On_Approach_with_David_Bradbeer_-_Wildlife_Program_Specialist.aspx

YVR WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

The wildlife management program was created in 2013 to help decrease the risk between wildlife and aircraft carriers. The program works to make the airfield less attractive to birds so they do not fly into planes and cause severe damage. Specialists also use noise-making pyrotechnics with changing sounds and trained predators such as bald eagles and border collies to scare away shorebirds and geese. For birds that do not react to these deterrents there is the catch and release program where birds are trapped, mark, and released into the wild away from the YVR facilities.

http://www.yvr.ca/en/about/annual_report/environment/manage-noise.aspx

AIRCRAFT NOISE