6 easy ways to stop light pollution from harming our wildlife
- Written by Emily Fobert, Research Associate, Flinders University
As winter approaches, marine turtle nesting in the far north of Australia will peak. When these baby turtles hatch at night, they crawl from the sand to the sea, using the relative brightness of the horizon and the natural slope of the beach as their guide.
But when artificial lights outshine the moon and the sea, these hatchlings...