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New solar farms can benefit nature – here’s how

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par Fabio Carvalho, Senior Research Associate, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
Alona Armstrong, Professor of Energy and Environmental Sciences, Lancaster University

If you were told solar farms could take up to 0.3% of the total land area in the UK by 2035, would you take up a banner and march to parliament in protest? It’s hard to imagine anyone feeling troubled by such a perceptibly small figure.

Instead, if you were told a solar farm the size of 960 football pitches was to be built just outside your front door, would you join your local community to object it as loudly as possible? That’s easier to imagine.

Perceptions of scale…

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