Ecologists allay fears for farmland birds from wind turbines

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 22:49 in Biology & Nature

Wind farms pose less of a threat to farmland birds than previously feared, new research has found. The study, published this week in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, helps resolve a potentially major environmental conflict: how to meet renewable energy targets at the same time as reversing dramatic declines in biodiversity on European farmland...

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