The study included monitoring and assessing the impacts on avifauna and chiropteran fauna from the licensed, constructed, and operational wind farm at the Orfeus/Eptadendros site, located on the borders of the Municipalities of Alexandroupolis and Arriana, in the Regional Units of Evros and Rhodope.
This monitoring and its specific characteristics are provided based on the findings of the Special Ecological Assessment conducted for the project, as well as the decision approving environmental conditions (Directorate of Environment and Spatial Planning of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace / Department of Environmental & Spatial Planning).
The program’s characteristics are described in the text of the Integrated Environmental Monitoring Program covering the pre-construction, construction, and operational phases. The Program, among other things, detailed and specified the methodology for continuing monitoring (following the methodology applied in the Special Ecological Assessment) for at least one year pre-construction (before the start of construction works), with continuation during the construction and operation phases, so that the total monitoring period spans four (4) years. Special emphasis was placed on protected bird species (resident, wintering and nocturnal, including night migration) and bats.
The project was assigned to OikoM Ltd by ELTECH ANEMOS S.A.