Wind power company vows to help save critically endangered California condor

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Wind power company vows to help save critically endangered California condor (msn.com)

An energy company in California is teaming up with federal wildlife officials and the Oregon Zoo in an innovative project to ease the plight of the mighty, soaring condor, a critically endangered species of vulture threatened by giant wind turbines in the Tehachapi mountains north-east of Los Angeles.a bird flying in the sky: Photograph: Marcio José Sánchez/AP© Provided by The GuardianPhotograph: Marcio José Sánchez/AP

Avangrid Renewables, which operates 126 turbines as part of its Manzana wind power project, will finance the breeding of birds in captivity to replace any that might be killed by the 252ft diameter turbine blades.

The company will be “working with a captive breeding facility to fund the breeding of additional condors for release into the wild”, according to a…

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