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United Kingdom: Wind farms 'threaten world's largest gannet colony'
2015-09-28 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The worlds largest colony of gannets is under threat from proposed new offshore wind farms that could kill 1,500 birds a year, researchers have warned. About 75,000 pairs of gannets, Britain's biggest seabird, breed on the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth each year, nesting with such density that they give the rock its distinctive white appearance. But two new wind farms planned nearby could threaten the colony, according to a new Government-funded study which found that gannets fly higher than...
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