Abstract— The global aspiration for clean energy needs to accommodate biodiversity concerns. While India’s wind energy has grown annually by ~ 15% in recent past, their ecological impacts have not been assessed systematically. We studied bird mortality at wind farms in Thar Desert; a renewable energy hotspot, harboring ~300 bird species including critically endangered vultures and bustards. Our study spanned 3000 km² open natural ecosystem with ~900 turbines. We searched carcasses at 90 randomly selected turbines using seven multi-season surveys. We compared . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/bird-mortality-at-wind-farms-in-a-tropical-desert/
