A thousand street lights will go out tonight between 20:00 and 23:00 in five municipalities of Madeira, as part of a campaign to protect Cory's Shearwaters from excessive artificial light.
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The Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA) is holding its annual Buzzard and Kite Census on the 1st and 2nd of April. The census aims to assess current population numbers.
The Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA) will be out on the streets with their new survey which aims to investigate the Madeiran perception of light pollution and energy efficiency.
The City Council of Santa Cruz will celebrate Earth Hour on Saturday the 26th of March, by holding an hour long public lighting blackout of the town centre between 8.30 - 9.30 pm.
The Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA), is holding their annual Manta Census on the 2nd and 3rd of April.
The Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA), asks all Madeirans to take part in their annual 'Save a Seabird Campaign.' The campaign, which is now in its 12th year, runs until the 15th of November, the most critical time for young seabirds, as they are often disoriented and dazzled by artificial street lights.
Until the 25th of December, all profits from the sale of the Moritz Quartet's track "Dança da Toutinegra" (Dance of the Warbler) will be donated to the Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA), which forms part of Madeira's environmental education programme, which every year offers free lectures, workshops and field trips to the regions schools.
The Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA), launched their new campaign 'Save a Seabird' today, which aims at creating greater awareness of the harmful affects light pollution has on birds, particularly dazzling and injury.
The new Interreg EElabs project "Energy Efficiency Laboratories," which runs from 2020 to 2022, intends to continues its campaign to reduce the amount of light pollution that affects sea birds, such as shearwaters, and bats, insects and others animals. Furthermore, studies suggest that young people are being blinded by excessive light.