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However, condor recovery programs have made the 138 free-flying condors in California reliant on humans for food free of contamination from lead ammunition.Last November we learned that the Inhumans would be getting their own TV series, rather than the movie that had originally been planned. Today, there are as many condors in the wild as there were in the 1950s. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent over the last three decades on condor recovery efforts led by the Fish and Wildlife Service, including captive breeding programs funded by private donors and organizations including the Los Angeles Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. “If taking a condor is allowed, what won’t be allowed?” “The California condor is a flagship species of the Endangered Species Act,” said Kelly Fuller, wind campaign coordinator for the American Bird Conservancy. Some environmentalists said they worry that the agreement will weaken the concept of federal protections for endangered species and their crucial habitats. “For wind energy companies, that means if a condor is killed at one of their facilities they will be investigated and likely be prosecuted,” Jill Birchell, Fish and Wildlife Service special agent in charge for California and Nevada. “But if there were a strike, there would be serious repercussions for us including an immediate halt to daytime operations and required development of additional measures to avoid further threats.” “This project is leading the way in condor-avoidance systems,” said Randy Hoyle, head of wind and solar development for Terra-Gen. If a condor ventures within 2 miles, the speed of rotating turbine blades will be reduced from 150 mph to 15 mph within two minutes, and down to 3 mph a few minutes after that, Terra-Gen officials said. The detector is to include a telemetry system to track signals from radio transmitters attached to condors flying within 16 miles of the facility, radar to detect untagged birds and on-site biologists to report condor sightings. Terra-Gen voluntarily reduced the size of the project from 106 turbines to 51 spread across 4 square miles of mostly BLM land to minimize effects on wildlife, including golden eagles.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service believes that the likelihood of a condor being killed at the 153-megawatt project, a subsidiary of Terra-Gen Power, is low because site is outside the bird’s historic range and on the leeward slopes all but devoid of thermal updrafts the majestic scavengers with 10-foot wingspans need to gain altitude and soar.Īlso, Terra-Gen plans to install a detection system designed to switch off its 456-foot-tall turbines when condors are spotted nearby. Fish and Wildlife Service, will shield Alta Windpower Development from prosecution if a condor is fatally injured at its 2,300-acre site near the high-desert town of Mojave during the projected 30-year lifetime of the project. Bureau of Land Management, with approval of the U.S. Federal wildlife officials on Friday for the first time agreed not to prosecute a developer if an endangered California condor is struck and killed by turbine blades at its proposed wind farm in the Tehachapi Mountains, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles.
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