COULD wind farms hasten the local extinction of an endangered vulture in southern Spain?
Studies have so far focused on the short-term effects of wind turbines, looking at the number of bird collisions per turbine per year. of the in Seville and colleagues took a new approach. They recorded the number of Egyptian vulture carcasses with collision injuries found around 675 wind turbines in southern Spain between 2004 to 2008. They then plugged this information and data on wind turbine locations and vulture nesting sites across Spain into a computer model to predict…
