An threatened Lear’s macaw (Anodorhynchus leari) flies over a reserve near the Canudos Biological Station, close to the Canudos Wind Energy Complex in Canudos, Bahia state, Brazil, on May 5,2023 (Photo: AFP) CANUDOS, Brazil: A wind farm in northeastern Brazil sounds like a welcome climate-friendly energy service, however it is triggering debate over another kind of ecological concern: the effect on the threatened Lear’s macaw. Home to more than 90% of Brazil’s growing wind-power market, the northeast is understood for strong, constant winds that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva desires to harness to power a green-energy transformation. The area hasactually drawn the interest of French sustainable energy business Voltalia, which broke ground last year on a 28-turbine, 100-megawatt wind farm in semi-arid Canudos county, in the state of Bahia. But the job quickly came under attack when it emerged that the huge turbines, with their 120-metre (nearly 400-foot) size blades — a understood danger to birds in flight — were being constructed in a nesting area for the Lear’s macaw, a brilliant blue parrot likewise understood as the indigo macaw, or by its clinical name Anodorhynchus leari. Named for 19th-century English poet Edward Lear, the birds have diminished to an approximated population of no more than 2,000 in the wild, as farming and logging have significantly decreased their environment. The wind farm is “very dangerous,” stated Marlene Reis, of the Lear’s Macaw Gardens Project, an organisation attempting to conserve the types. “It might substantially inc
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