Letters: Where is the evidence to suggest solar farms can boost nature?

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Letters: Where is the evidence to suggest solar farms can boost nature?

A spokesperson for the Department of Energy and Net Zero said: "In some cases, solar farms can increase the local abundance of bees, birds and butterflies." They were speaking in a Farmers Guardian...

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