CategoriesWind farms Threats Evros Thrace TOP NEWS Bats Environmental licensing Environmental legislation Rhodope Cumulative impactDid 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 […]
CategoriesWind farms Birds of prey Vultures Press release Evros Thrace Environmental licensing Environmental legislation Rhodope Cumulative impactJoint statement by nine environmental organizations: Still no protection measures for the burned ecosystems in Evros! Three months have passed since the devastating fire that burned approximately 950,000 acres in Evros and the Rhodope Mountains, with incalculable consequences for protected birds and natural ecosystems, but the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has still not issued any decision on the necessary […]
CategoriesWind farms Birds of prey Vultures Press release Evros Thrace Environmental licensing Environmental legislation Rhodope Cumulative impactJoint statement by nine environmental organizations: Taking immediate measures for ASPIE in Evros and Rhodope with the aim of protecting birds and ecosystems After the devastating fire in Evros and Rhodope, with incalculable consequences for protected birds and natural ecosystems, in a joint letter to the Minister of Environment and Energy, nine organizations […]
CategoriesWind farms The Egyptian vulture Vultures Press release Griffon vulture Environmental licensing RhodopeNew Wind Farms in Rhodope Mountains Threaten Vultures and Other Protected Birds On July 25, the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia-Thrace approved the construction and operation of three Wind Farms for the Production of Electricity (ASPHE) in the Kompsatos Valley, a critical habitat for important and sensitive protected birds such as the Egyptian Vulture, the Black Vulture, the Vulture, the White-tailed Eagle […]
CategoriesWind farms Evros Events Thrace TOP NEWS Xanthi Environmental licensing Environmental legislation Rhodope Seminars Cumulative impactSeminars on the legal framework for the environmental permitting of ASPIE in Alexandroupolis, Komotini and Xanthi Both EU and national legislation provide for specific procedures for the assessment of the impacts (including cumulative) of ASPIE* projects in the context of environmental permitting in order to ensure that the climate objectives for clean energy will be achieved […]
Another black vulture victim of wind turbine collision in Thrace On April 30, a black vulture flying in the Drosia Rhodope area crashed into a wind turbine of a four-turbine wind farm located in the «Filiouri Valley» Important Bird Area. The black vulture was located thanks to the satellite transmitter it carried on its back three days after […]
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