Yvonne O’Brien

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Yvonne O’Brien |Justin Moran

As the iconic Irish hen harrier edges closer to extinction an innovative SEAI-funded project, RE:HARRIER, is bringing together researchers, academics and environmentalists to work with the wind energy industry to find solutions. In recent years wind farms have increasingly, and successfully, been designed to accommodate local hen harrier populations. On one wind farm, between 2018 and 2023, hen harriers fledged in five of the six monitored breeding seasons within 600 metres of wind turbines.