In Spain, rehabilitating native fauna and their habitat.
As part of the collaboration that has been developed between EDP and GREFA, an NGO whose mission is to rehabilitate native fauna and their habitat, three new actions were recently defined.
Eyes on the sky
EDP has been collaborating with the Group for the Rehabilitation of Native Fauna and its Habitat (GREFA), a non-profit, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) founded in 1981 in Spain.
Sierra de Ávila
One of the agreements recently signed between EDP and GREFA aims to install a private electric system near the wind turbines that EDP owns in the Sierra de Avila. On this power line there has been a high mortality rate of birds, mainly vultures, by electrocution and collision.
EDP, aware of the problem, and although the electric line in question is not related to its wind farms, decided to assume the cost of correcting an important part of this electrical installation.
Study on the impact of food demand on landfills
A second vector of collaboration aims to carry out a study on the impact that foraging at landfills has on wildlife. For this purpose, a monitoring of the influx of black vultures and kites to the Ávila-Norte Waste Treatment Center, located near the ZEPA "Campo Azálvaro - Pinares de Peguerinos", will be carried out during two months.
This landfill is surrounded by roads, power lines and wind farms, which gives this area protected by the European Union's Natura 2000 Network an additional risk for the birds that frequent it. The project will include the marking and subsequent monitoring of two black vultures and two kites, emblematic species classified as "threatened" in Spain.
Sponsorship of two black vultures
EDP has decided to sponsor two of the 13 black vultures that were recently transferred to Huerta de Arriba (Burgos), to be introduced into the acclimatization cage, from where they will be released a few months later in that region.
There is a high probability that, once released from Sierra de la Demanda, the two black vultures sponsored by EDP will visit the area in Ávila province (as happened with other specimens of the same species, reintroduced previously), where the two projects, arising from the partnership between EDP and GREFA, will be developed.
