Wind power is rapidly gaining momentum in wind-rich Hokkaido, but environmental concerns loom as giant turbines pose risks to the natural environment.
A new ordinance in Tochigi's Ichikai Town aims to protect the satoyama habitat of grey-faced buzzards from solar power development and agricultural decline.
The rising construction of wind turbines threatens the nesting sites of the endangered eastern marsh harrier, or chuhi, in the grasslands of northern Hokkaido.
A nonprofit works to protect the migratory little tern, a vulnerable species on Japan's Red List that nests on the roof of a Tokyo sewage treatment...