Wind farms in Thrace – Griffon vulture 1-1: One victory and one (temporary) defeat for the Griffon vulture, the most endangered vulture in Europe! Two diametrically opposed decisions were recently issued for wind farms (ASPIE) in Evros and Rodopi. On February 27, the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia Thrace rejected a wind farm that was planned near nests […]

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 […]

What should worry us more? The impacts on nature of each wind farm individually or all of them together, current and future? For the first time in Greece, the cumulative impacts of the Thrace wind farms on species and habitats were assessed through a program implemented by the Thrace Biodiversity Protection Society (EPBTH). An important resource is added to the quiver of those involved […]

Seminars 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 […]