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Many Wind Turbines Being Installed Critical Bird Habitat, Group Says

2015-05-20 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: More than 30,000 wind turbines in the U.S. have been installed in areas critical to the survival of federally protected birds and an additional 50,000 turbines are planned for similar areas, according to the advocacy group American Bird Conservancy (ABC). Those figures include 24,000 turbines in the migration corridor of the rare whooping crane and nearly 3,000 turbines in breeding strongholds for greater sage grouse, a species that has already declined by up to 80 percent in recent decades due to...

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