Whooping Cranes Threatened by Wind Farms

By Charlie • March 5, 2008 • No comments yet

More than 60 years after it was pushed close to extinction the Whooping Crane faces new danger from so called environmentally-friendly wind farms. “Companies want to put their farms where the best wind is, and that overlaps with the migration corridor of the Whooping Crane,” says Tom Stehn of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. There’s more info on Discovery News.

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