Conservationists fight to keep wind farms off Skyros

Residents on the remote Greek island of Skyros are engaged in a last-ditch fight to prevent the construction of one of the world’s largest wind farms on a protected nature reserve.

The plans have pitched the country’s largest landowner, the Orthodox Church, against the islanders. Conservationists, echoing the debate across Europe, are split between those keen to expand Greece’s renewable energy production and those who argue the destruction in this case would too great.

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