Applied Solutions to Balance Conservation Need With Practical Applications: A Case Study With Eagles Movement Models and Wind Energy Development.

ABSTRACT: The wind energy industry presents a green-green dilemma whereby it aims to reduce CO₂ emissions and combat climate change, benefiting biodiversity, but its development also negatively impacts biodiversity. To reconcile this, the first action in the mitigation hierarchy is to avoid development in high-risk areas for vulnerable species. For raptors, development is often restricted within a certain distance from nests, or more recently, by using predictive habitat use models to define site- and species-specific areas of high collision risk. One such model has been used to predict areas of high collision risk where development should be avoided for Verreaux's Eagles (Aquila verreauxii) in South Africa, but industry use of this tool has declined (research-implementation gap, R

SUBMITTER: Murgatroyd M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12022779 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature