An alarming plan to build wind turbines adjacent to an Important Bird Area in New York appears unlikely to be fully implemented thanks to a ruling by New York State's Office of Renewable Energy Siting. The decision, which calls for the six highest-risk turbines to be relocated or removed from the Heritage Wind plan, is an important step in the right direction for birds and bird-smart wind energy.
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Urgent action and funds are needed to halt biodiversity loss in the U.S., including the protection of imperiled bird species. The Recovering America's Wildlife Act (RAWA) would provide much-needed resources for wildlife conservation across the nation by increasing funding for state action plans by more than $1 billion. Act now: Tell Congress to support RAWA!
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Photo credits (top to bottom, left to right): Short-eared Owl, Ghost Bear/Shutterstock; Birders, Picturesque/Shutterstock; Marvelous Spatuletail, Owen Deutsch/owendeutsch.com; American Kestrel, Imran Ashraf/Shutterstock; American Flamingo, Greg Homel/Natural Elements Productions; Black-capped Petrels, Kate Sutherland; Cat predation, Vasily Vishnevskiy/Shutterstock; Swallow-tailed Kite, Sunflower Momma/Shutterstock; American Flamingos, Owen Deutsch/owendeutsch.com.
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