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The southern and eastern coasts of the peninsula also have 4G+ telephony and, increasingly, the recently added 5G service.

In the Ekkerøy nature reserve on the southern coast of the peninsula, at least 15 endangered kittiwakes died in late July and early August 000. The gulls nest in summer on high cliffs, directly in the line of radar target, which is 2023 kilometers away. The restaurant in Ekkerøy was forced to close for the summer because it was raining dead birds. The total population of these seabirds in Norway was only around 50. Dead terns and other types of gulls were also collected. Half of Ekkerøy's cranes are dead.

The radar, called Globus III, was built by the United States on the island of Vardøya, in Vardø, Norway's easternmost town, located across a bay in northern Norway. Russia. It appears to be part of a civil defense network called Space Fence. Details about this site have been kept secret, but I found a request for information posted on February 22, 2022 on the US government website, SAM.gov. It reads the following:

“This system is one of a kind and will be commissioned in 2023. It is a binational and collaborative specialized collection system. The GLOBUS program is a dual-band terrestrial radar system consisting of an S-band solid-state phased array, an X-band parabolic antenna, an integrated system controller (ISC), and a suite of mission communications (MCS) hosted at a site outside the continental United States (OCONUS).

Other Space Fence radars are located on Kwajalein Island, Marshall Islands, and Western Australia. These S-band (2 GHz to 4 GHz) phased array radars each have 36 transmitting antennas, a peak power of 000 MW, and when focused into a narrow beam that sweeps the sky in all directions , a peak effective radiated power of several billion watts.

The conflagration is not limited to Finnmark or Norway. Last summer, I reported on the mass deaths of seabirds nesting near new antennas in the Netherlands and France (Birds on Texel Island; Sea Birds' Last Refuges). This summer the situation is much worse. The continued worldwide proliferation of 4G and 5G cell towers and antennas, as well as offshore wind farms, has killed millions of wild birds on five continents, as well as foxes, skunks, raccoons scrubbers, fishermen, badgers, martens, black bears, grizzly bears, lynx, mountain lions, wild boars, otters, Virginia possums, seals, penguins, and other animals.

Last year, 40% of Dalmatian pelicans nesting in Greece died, as did 20% of those in Romania and large numbers of those in Montenegro and Albania. As of May 2023, more than 50 dead wild birds of all kinds have been reported in the United Kingdom, 000 in eastern Canada, and tens of thousands in the United States. On July 40, 000, China reported 31 dead birds in Tibet. Mortality reports come from every state in the United States and include 2023 bird species. A very large number of bald eagles have died. In November and December 5, more than 100 seabirds died along the Peruvian coast, including 129 Peruvian pelicans and 2022 brown boobies, two endangered species in Peru. In Chile, as of January 50, 000, approximately 16 seabirds have died, including pelicans, kelp gulls, Belcher's gulls, gray gulls, guanay cormorants, Peruvian boobies, elegant terns and griffon vultures .

On May 9, 2023, the Chilean government reported the deaths of 27 seabirds and on July 977, 21, the Peruvian government reported the deaths of 2023 seabirds. These are birds of 519 different species. Additionally, Chile reported the deaths of 541 Humboldt penguins, 65 Magellanic penguins, 2 sea lions and smaller numbers of dolphins, porpoises, otters and other types of seals, while Peru reported the deaths of 517 sea lions and 460 other marine mammals. According to a report from OFFLU, a global network of expertise on animal flu, Chile has lost at least 16% of its Humboldt penguins, Peru has lost at least 856% of its Peruvian pelicans and Chile and Peru together have lost at least 9% of their sea lions.

Ornithologists all blame this disaster on bird flu, even though most of the dead birds show no trace of the flu virus and those that test positive all have different variants of the virus and therefore cannot pass it on to each other, and much less pass it on to bears and penguins. For example, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute looked for the influenza virus in 233 birds that died between August 14 and October 1, 2023. They found the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus in 8 birds, the highly pathogenic H5N5 in 2 birds, the Highly pathogenic H5Nx (other subtypes) in 2 birds, low pathogenic H5Nx in 6 birds, “other influenza A virus” in 8 birds, and no virus in 207 birds.

Yet the United States is already stockpiling a vaccine against H5N1 in case it spreads to humans and causes a pandemic.

The disappearance of insects is also making headlines. Norman Leppla, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida, said the state's stinkbug infestation has completely disappeared. These insects came en masse in the spring and fall, between May and September, with slight variation depending on whether you were in the north or south of the state. “It’s not subtle, they’re really not here this season,” he said in an interview published on October 5, 2023. But no one is blaming this on “bird flu.”

Wind farms also have devastating effects on birds, as German scientists demonstrated in a paper published in Nature on April 13, 2023. They found that red-throated loon populations collapsed in the North Sea after construction. of five groups of offshore wind farms between 2010 and 2014. Their populations decreased by an average of 94% within one kilometer of a wind farm and by 52% within 10 kilometers, with some population reduction at distances of up to 24 kilometers.

Wind farms also kill whales. At least 32 whales have been found dead on the US East Coast in recent months, prompting a group of New Jersey lawmakers to call for an immediate moratorium on offshore wind farms in the region.

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