Discovery of a decapitated vulture corpse in the Pyrénées-Orientales

"For years, we have been explaining to the authorities that we are in an important transit zone for birds of prey"

Following the accident involving a wind turbine in Prugnanes, the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) in the Pyrénées-Orientales shares its emotion and concerns.

Just like the Roussillon Ornithological Group (GOR), the local branch of the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) works every day to preserve biodiversity in the Pyrénées-Orientales. Its president, Rossano Pulpito, is furious after the discovery of a decapitated carcass of a griffon vulture at the foot of a wind turbine in the El Singla park in Prugnanes.  "We are also sad and worried to see wind farms multiplying and the airspace becoming saturated ," he adds. Vultures are increasingly frequenting the Mediterranean arc. In the Pyrénées-Orientales, they search for food over hundreds of kilometers. On a foggy day, they go around the wind turbines, go back up into the air, get exhausted and have accidents."

"For years, we have been explaining to the authorities that we are in an important transit zone for birds of prey," he explains. "On this site, there is mention of so-called negligible impacts in the reports of consultancy firms that do not know the area. But then, after the precautionary measure of daytime shutdown of the wind turbines, what precautions will be taken given the problem is proven? Who will control them? How will the prefecture and the DREAL still act? To think that three new wind turbines are going to be built in a forest massif in Trilla... It is disastrous for the future of the habitats of the Bonelli's eagle and the golden eagle. Here, storks, buzzards, falcons... and even bats are also in danger."

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