You have situations like at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, which is in the Mojave Desert, where the project had to be scaled down to preserve some desert tor

You have situations like at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, which is in the Mojave Desert, where the project had to be scaled down to preserve some desert tortoise habitat. If you're placing solar panels in a sand desert, you have to deal with sandstorms and shifting dunes. The more land you use for solar panels or heliostats, the more difficult it becomes to find additional usable land. > "Concerns about the impacts of the Ivanpah Solar thermal project led the developers to hire some 100 biologists and spend US$22 million caring for the tortoises on or near the site during construction."