Mateo-Tomás and López-Bao (2022) expose several arguments on why nuclear energy is needed for biodiversity conservation. The authors aptly expose that land use is the main driver of biodiversity loss and discuss the land footprint of renewable energy, namely solar, wind and hydropower, mining activities and hence the biodiversity impact, compared to nuclear energy. Likewise, Mateo-Tomás and López-Bao (2022) highlight the drawbacks of nuclear energy in such regard. In this sense, they state that “.nuclear power is not exempt of environmental and socioeconomic concerns, such as operating risks, long-term radioactive wastes, high costs, thermal pollution or miningâ€. Furthermore, they indicate that “all of these issues deserve further attention in order to be minimised, and some of them must be properly accounted for, especially if fair comparisons among the land footprints of nuclear and renewable energies are intendedâ€. Lastly, the authors end by expressing that “nuclear energy should be integrated in the political agenda to prevent that acting against climate change will boost habitat degradation and, in turn, biodiversity loss.