The biofuel madness continues. What first looked like a great idea to fight climate change, now turns out to be a disaster for bird conservation. As the demand for biofuels has grown during the last years, more and more areas have been used to grow energy plants. Unfortunately this often resulted in the destruction of important wildlife habitat like rainforests. Also, farmland that has been set aside for farmland birds and other animals like hares is now used to grow biofuels, reducing the number of endangered farmland birds like Skylarks, Yellowhammers and others even more. For more information about the negative side effects of biofuels check out this site by The Nature Conservancy.

One of the areas recently threatened by biofuels is a wonderful wetland in Northern Kenya according to a recent report by the RSPB. The impacts on the local birdlife would be severe, threatening species like the Basra Reed Warbler or the Golden-breasted Starling.

I think there should be strong rules for the growth of biofuels and the destruction of important wildlife habitat must be prohibited.