Nighttime sporting event venues, airports, hotels and other businesses would be given three years to replace artificial light facilities under a bill that aims to address light pollution and reduce threats to native Hawaiian seabirds.
The purpose of these rules is to keep native Hawaiian seabirds from losing their sense of direction because of artificial light during flights from their burrows(洞穴) out to sea, said Kelly Takaya King, chairman of the Climate Action. When these birds fall to the ground, they are easy to be hunted and killed by predators like cats and dogs, as well as hit by vehicles.
“Birds help to provide a representation of current biodiversity, which is foretelling of our possible future fate,” King said Wednesday. “The good news is that people and organizations are getting involved, including local conservation groups.” Native Hawaiian seabirds are historically and traditionally crucial to Maui’s ecosystem, and King said the council’s intention is to protect them as much as possible from interference of onshore sources of artificial light, like street lamps, porch lights, headlights and large stadium lights.
The revised bill reduced the amount of visible blue light content permitted in outdoor lighting facilities that are distracting for wildlife. The bill still calls for the removal of mercury vapor(汞蒸气) from new outdoor lighting facilities. It also clarifies that all outdoor lighting facilities, except for neon(霓虹灯), must be fully covered up and faced down with no light shining above the horizontal.
“We definitely don’t want to create a culture of anger towards the birds, so like I said, we need to coexist, so we also need to be aware of those events and maybe have one of our team members look for these incidents that could involve the birds,” said Cheryl King, seabird biology technician for the Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project.
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