Abstract
The biennial Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife Impact (CWW) is recognized as the biggest global conference addressing the topic of wind energy and wildlife interactions. The mission of CWW is about bringing together the global community to share knowledge, tools and best practices on wind energy and wildlife interactions. Every other year, researchers, consultants, wildlife technology companies, wind energy developers, regulators, financers and other interested parties gather to work together and share knowledge on both the state of science and science-based solutions to ecological impacts from on- and off-shore wind energy. CWW promotes a collaborative approach to resolving key ecological issues facing developers, investors, conservationists, decision makers and the public.
The scientific program of the 8th Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife Impacts (CWW2025) held in September 2025 in Montpelier France was structured around the theme of Coexistence in a Changing World: Sharing Existing Knowledge, Challenges and Emerging Solutions. This meaningful theme incorporates important concepts that are directly aligned with CWW’s objectives: seeking ways to achieve the best possible coexistence between wind power and biodiversity, based on proactive scientific approaches, while considering the parameters that influence biodiversity now and in the future, with a focus on climate change and other significant developments.
The scientific presentations and posters presented in CWW2025 were linked to 12 different topics:
• Landscape-level approaches to address wind energy/biodiversity challenges, particularly those affecting multiple land users and stakeholders
• Regulatory and planning aspects of wind energy projects (including research efforts to inform regulatory or voluntary conservation decisions)
• Applying the Mitigation Hierarchy: case studies and good practice examples of avoidance, minimization and mitigation, including off setting and restoration
• Wind energy and biodiversity in practice
• Species-specific responses of onshore and offshore wind energy projects
• Population and cumulative effects, including climate change
• Ecosystem and habitat effects of on and offshore wind energy projects
• Lessons learned in marine and terrestrial environments for wind energy development
• The Mediterranean Basin and wind development : trends, key issues and case studies
• Emerging markets and wind development: trends, key issues & case studies
• Innovation to advance wind energy and biodiversity science : novel conceptual, methodological, and technological approaches
• Future challenges, emerging solutions and technologies
Many of these topics have been routinely included in past CWW conference programs, while some topics were included in the CWW2025 program to highlight content related to the conference theme, the location of the conference and current trends in wind energy development (innovation, emerging issues).
The week-long CWW2025 conference included:
• Nine workshops
• Two keynote speeches
• Seven special sessions
• Thirty parallel sessions, including almost 135 individual presentations
• 135 posters presentations
• An opening and a closing ceremony
With almost 1100 participants from 60 different countries, CWW2025 was a major success in bringing together the scientific community to share the latest developments, best practices and emerging issues related to wind energy and biodiversity topics.
We are proud to present the community of CWW with this book of abstracts, which includes:
• A summary of the workshops
• A summary of the keynote talks
• The abstracts of the individual presentations and posters
We trust that you will consider both the abstracts and the conference at large to be insightful and inspiring.