A wildlife charity is opposing plans to build wind turbines in a forest amid fears it “would increase the chances of local extinction” of red squirrels in mid Wales.
Renewable energy firm Galileo Empower wants to build 19 turbines in a forest east of Lampeter, Ceredigion.
But the Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales (WTSWW) said it would also affect the Bryn Arau Duon Forest in Carmarthenshire which offered a “rare refuge” for red squirrels, free from grey squirrels.
Galileo Empower said its planned 89 acre (36 hectare) site was already a commercial forestry plantation “where felling and extraction are already routine” but proposals included safeguarding the red squirrels.