benmasters88 t1_ix9c96g wrote
Reply to comment by OnlyMatters in AskScience AMA Series: I'm a wildlife filmmaker who's spent years tracking and filming the endangered ocelot population in Texas. Ask me anything! by AskScienceModerator
It's not so much the windfarm as it is the habitat loss. It's no differnet than a parking lot or an ag field. Anytime you transition wild habitat into a human dominated area you lose the wildlife. For ocelots in S. Texas, a lot of their former habitat has been plowed under and is now dominated by ag and wind farms, which is totally unsuitable for the species. Alternative energy is necessary, but it definitely comes at a high price and we should be careful where we put it. In Texas, there's little to no zoning for wind energy and there's turbines in some really stupid places that are extremely importnat migratory corridors. It's maddening because the effort to do alternative energy is noble and necessary, but done poortly can really set back some areas or species
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