Light Pollution
Convened by Christian Voigt
Introduction
The influence of light pollution was already considered by CMS as a problem, mainly for night time migratory birds but also for bats. Three main areas were identified:
- Interaction with feeding activity, including prey distribution and intra bat species competition;
- (In)direct effects on roosts;
- Effects on commuting - all non-feeding related movements, including barrier function of lit roads and fragmentation of the night landscape.
This IWG was established during the AC12 Meeting in Budapest with the following objectives:
- Create an assessment of the different aspects of impact of light on the various bat species;
- Create methodological guidelines to survey the effect of light pollution (experimental design of studies) and
- Conservation guidelines (case specific).
Resolutions:
Reports:
13th Meeting of the Advisory Committee, Cluj, Romania, 23 – 24 August 2008
21st Meeting of the Advisory Committee, Zandvoort, the Netherlands, 18 – 20 April 2016
22nd Meeting of the Advisory Committee Belgrade, Serbia, 27 – 29 March 2017
24th Meeting of the Advisory Committee Skopje, North Macedonia, 1 – 3 April 2019
EUROBATS publications:
