"We're waiting for EDF to be convicted of harming a certain number of Kestrel birds without having been granted a permit to do so," explains Simon Popy, President of France Nature Environnement. The courts are due to rule on the responsibility of the state-owned electricity firm EDF and several of its subsidiaries for the excess mortality of protected bird species in a wind farm they operate near Montpellier. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES