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It is Big Butterfly Count time again, which is all the excuse needed to spend a bit of time just looking at your garden (if it ever warms up/stops raining). Less well known is Butterfly Conservation’s campaign against light pollution. This excellent booklet explains all about it clearly and concisely.
https://butterfly-conservation.org/free-light-pollution-guideI particularly like the line –
“Light pollution threatens whole ecosystems”.While we are talking about the wildlife in our neighbourhoods, Stars of the Night is another useful publication.
https://www.bats.org.uk/resources/publications-and-leaflets/leaflets-and-posters/our-leafletsThe charity Buglife has launched a new campaign called Don’t Neglect the Night. Members might be interested in supporting this.
This recent article in Environmental Pollution Journal on the effects of ALAN on bird gene expression is one more example of similar research findings elsewhere. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749125009121
There are a lot of bird watchers in the BAA – what are bird charities such as the RSPB saying about the topic?The rise in car headlight intensity, coupled with LED glare, and the increased traffic flow in recent years have contributed to my decision to no longer attend the evening meetings of my local astronomy societies. This research suggests that my inability to cope is not solely due to my ageing.
https://zenodo.org/records/15565958
Has anyone else suffered from this change?
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