Save energy to protect our globe

The lighthouse on the UK Bardsey Island （Ynys Enlli） has been the navigation coordinate of the Irish Sea for decades, and the beam with 89,900 candle power can be irradiated to 22 miles away from the sea at night. And this month , due to the ready to replace the lighthouse lighting equipment with the energy-efficient LED flood lights , Association pilot staff closed the lights emitted by the lighthouse .

In addition to considering the energy-saving to replace the lamps of lighthouse, there is a factor in other areas. Since there is no other strong light source the vicinity around, a large number of birds will instinctively fly toward the direction of the lighthouse at night , which also formed the wonders of the island that a large number of birds are always landing . Records show that there are sometimes 40,000 birds inhabiting the island at night. However , the staff of local animal protection organizations also said that many birds, and the some birds are easily dead due to collision to building when flying to lighthouse at night.

Staff Steven Stanfield said after the lighthouse lamps replaced with LED flood lights, the red light which do not attract birds to reduce bird mortality. Of course, the Bardsey Island  will also lose the ups and downs of the birds.Browsing http://www.lead-lighting.com/products/bid19-1.htm for more information about LED flood lights.

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