How to protect birds and bats from wind turbines

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South Africa’s Verreaux’s eagles have a problem. The very landscapes they favour, where the air currents along vast ridges carry them as they soar, are prime locations for wind farm developers – who want to make use of exactly the same resource.

“At least 24 carcasses have been picked up under wind turbines,” says Dr Megan Murgatroyd, from Hawkwatch International. “For this species in particular, it seems to be quite a conflict.”

Sometimes the birds die

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