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Energy company to breed California condors It aims to replace endangered birds killed by turbines By Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times Published: March 8, 2021, 6:05am Share: 3 Photos Dusk settles over power-generating wind turbines near the Tehachapi Mountains in Rosamond. Federal wildlife officials are allowing Manzana, a private wind energy company, to provide funding to breed critically endangered California condors to replace any killed by its turbines. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times) Photo Gallery ROSAMOND, Calif. — They are among the top goals of California ...
BirdGuides 5b4e6285-a599-493e-b6ea-4fd4f1c1e525 An energy company in California is teaming up with federal wildlife officials and Oregon Zoo in an innovative project to ease the plight of California Condor. The Critically Endangered species is threatened by large wind turbines in the Tehachapi mountains north-east of Los Angeles. Avangrid Renewables, which operates 126 turbines as part of its Manzana wind power project, will finance the breeding of birds in captivity to replace any that might be killed by the 252-ft diameter turbine blades. Avangrid Renewables will financ...
Portland energy company will breed California condors to replace any birds killed by turbine blades Updated Mar 04, 2021; Posted Mar 04, 2021 A California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) in flight, Garrapata Sate Park, California, in 2014. (Cultura/Zuma Press/TNS) TNS Facebook Share By Louis Sahagun/Los Angeles Times/TNS ROSAMOND, Calif. — They are among the top goals of California environmentalists: preserving endangered species and replacing fossil fuels with clean energy. Yet in the blustery skies above Kern County’s Tehachapi Mountains — where towering wind turbines churn with h...
To replace birds killed by turbine blades, an energy firm will breed endangered California condors. Preserving endangered species and replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy are two of California environmentalists' top priorities.