Will French Energy Company Voltalia Doom An Endangered Brazilian Parrot?

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Renewable energy is vital. So is proper siting. A wind energy project is impacting the Lear’s Macaw’s only remaining habitat.

French energy company Voltalia is rapidly pushing forward with construction of a wind energy facility that threatens the Endangered Lear's Macaw, a parrot that numbers only about 2,000 individuals and exists solely in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The project is destroying Lear's Macaw habitat and once operational, will put the parrots at risk of fatal collisions with turbines. Conservation groups have pleaded with the company to relocate the project to minimize impacts, but Voltalia is continuing with construction.

Will French Energy Company Voltalia Doom an Endangered Brazilian Parrot?
 
UngulateNerd92 said:
Renewable energy is vital. So is proper siting. A wind energy project is impacting the Lear’s Macaw’s only remaining habitat.

French energy company Voltalia is rapidly pushing forward with construction of a wind energy facility that threatens the Endangered Lear's Macaw, a parrot that numbers only about 2,000 individuals and exists solely in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The project is destroying Lear's Macaw habitat and once operational, will put the parrots at risk of fatal collisions with turbines. Conservation groups have pleaded with the company to relocate the project to minimize impacts, but Voltalia is continuing with construction.

Will French Energy Company Voltalia Doom an Endangered Brazilian Parrot?
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They might all nog give a damn, but adverse publicity and bad reputation of foreign company IS. Petition, protest and underline this entire project "renewable Energy" is greenwashing in disguise and environmentally suspect and threatening the extinction and disappearance of the last few avaiable habitat for an endangered species. I Would say talk to French environmentalists ....
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
They might all nog give a damn, but adverse publicity and bad reputation of foreign company IS. Petition, protest and underline this entire project "renewable Energy" is greenwashing in disguise and environmentally suspect and threatening the extinction and disappearance of the last few avaiable habitat for an endangered species. I Would say talk to French environmentalists ....
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Yes I definitely agree with this and largely because the current administration here absolutely do not and will not care in the slightest.

The purest (and perhaps oldest ?) form of patriotism and nationalism from what I can see is love and pride and stewardship of the land and wildlife / biodiversity as resources to be used sustainably and zealously guarded from violation by foreign or outside entities and in that sense the original indigenous Brazilians were and remain the most ardent and committed nationalists and patriots.

Anyway ...my apologies for that venting and colourful language but had to say that.
 
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Here is another relevant article.

French Corporation Destroying Habitat Of Endangered Brazilian Parrot

International Conservation Community Unites Against Turbine Threat

Voltalia, an energy company based in Paris, is developing a wind energy facility in the habitat of the Endangered Lear's Macaw, in spite of requests from international conservation groups and local communities to move the project. This is occurring as France hosts the IUCN World Conservation Congress, a global event held every four years that focuses on driving conservation and sustainable development action.

French Corporation Destroying Habitat of Endangered Brazilian Parrot
 
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