Feathers fly over proposed wind farm’s impacts on great white pelicans
6 Mar 2021
Flying free: Wind turbines planned for construction in the flight path of the great white pelican are likely to kill six birds per year. (Andrea Innocenti/Reda & Co/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
BirdLife South Africa has urged the developer of a proposed wind energy facility on the West Coast to consider alternative locations to prevent vulnerable great white pelicans from colliding with its wind turbines.
In February 2012, Moyeng Energy received environmental authorisation for its proposed 35-turbine Rheboksfontein facility, which is to be built 3km west of Darling and about 15km east of Dassen Island, the only breeding site for the heavy, slope-soaring birds in the region.