• Junior veterinary doctor Rajkumar holding an injured bird whose feathers were burned by electric wires, at the Charity Birds Hospital in Gurugram, India, on Aug. 24. New Delhi is home to a magnificent array of predatory birds, but untold numbers are maimed each week by kite strings, cars and other grave encounters with human activity. | AFP-JIJI
    Junior veterinary doctor Rajkumar holding an injured bird whose feathers were burned by electric wires, at the Charity Birds Hospital in Gurugram, India, on Aug. 24. New Delhi is home to a magnificent array of predatory birds, but untold numbers are maimed each week by kite strings, cars and other grave encounters with human activity. | AFP-JIJI
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RAJASTHAN, India – A conservationist wants India's government to bury renewable power lines to protect rare birds. Protesting villagers halt a wind energy project to save their local forest. And farmers stop a solar plant from eating up pastureland.

As India forges ahead with ambitious plans to boost its clean energy supply, the government is facing push-back that highlights the challenges of balancing the competing goals of going green with protecting wildlife and forests.

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