Raising turtles under photovoltaic panels
Through a science-based assessment, Conservancy scientists identified enough suitable, already-disturbed land in the Mojave Desert to meet California’s renewable energy goals seven times over, while avoiding impacts to wildlife and wilderness.
Through a science-based assessment, Conservancy scientists identified enough suitable, already-disturbed land in the Mojave Desert to meet California’s renewable energy goals seven times over, while avoiding impacts to wildlife and wilderness.
This summary reviews publicly available information about the adverse impacts and potential benefits of ground-mounted large scale - PV solar power on wildlife in North America, and the status of our knowledge regarding how to mitigate adverse impacts and enhance beneficial impacts.
Any utility-scale energy development creates unique challenges for the desert tortoise. Not only can power generating facilities impair tortoise habitat, transmission lines can increase tortoise mortality. These tall structures provide nesting, roosting, and perches for ravens – one of the tortoise’s main predators.
A team of biologists relocated 139 tortoises from their habitat to make way for the solar panels in the Yellow Pine Solar Project, one of four large solar energy developments initiated in.
The Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) is a special-status species whose preservation often conflicts with land use in California’s deserts. This is especially true given the rapid rise of utility-scale solar energy development in the southwestern deserts to meet targets for renewable energy production.
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