Anniversary plantings… of wind turbines in the critical habitats of the Black Vulture! Decentralized Administration and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry continue the destructive policy in Thrace! Joint Press Release of the Hellenic Ornithological Society & the Society for the Protection of Biodiversity of Thrace: Not even a year has passed since the huge destructive fire in Evros, which resulted in the almost complete loss of the most important habitat of the Black Vulture in […]

The recorded birds and bats, "victims" of the wind turbines of Thrace: For the first time gathered in a database! Since 2008, when the first systematic survey by WWF Greece for dead birds and bats was carried out at the Wind Power Plants (WPPs) of Evros and Rodopi (it lasted two years), up to 2023, […]

Did you know that bats are also victims of wind turbines when they are not properly sited? © Panagiotis Georgiakakis Bats are the second largest group of mammals with more than 1400 species on earth and play an important role in the functioning of ecosystems as insect predators or plant pollinators or seed dispersers. All species in Europe are Strictly […]