(The Guardian) - Wind turbines can pose a deadly risk to migrating birds, but there are ways to dramatically reduce crashes.
Across Europe's rugged mountains, a hopeful change is underway: vultures are back. Almost driven into extinction by hunting, poisoning and habitat loss, the huge scavengers are being reintroduced by conservation teams that painstakingly hand-rear birds, supported by pairs of adoptive vulture parents, before releasing them into the wild.
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