{"id":40945,"date":"2020-08-05T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/germany-plans-to-dim-lights-at-night-to-save-insects\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T15:30:00","slug":"germany-plans-to-dim-lights-at-night-to-save-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/germany-plans-to-dim-lights-at-night-to-save-insects\/","title":{"rendered":"#Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Sundown could mean bright lights must go out in future for German cities like capital Berlin.
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Germany is planning to ban floodlights from dusk for much of the year as part of its bid to fight a dramatic decline in insect populations, it emerged Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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In a draft law seen by AFP, the country’s environment ministry has drawn up a number of new measures to protect insects, ranging from partially outlawing spotlights to increased protection of natural habitats. <\/p>\n

“Insects play an important role in the ecosystem…but in Germany, their numbers and their diversity has severely declined in recent years,” reads the draft law, for which the ministry hopes to get cabinet app<\/a>roval by October.
\nThe changes put forward in the law include stricter controls on both lighting and the use of insecticides.
\nLight traps for insects are to be banned outdoors, while searchlights and sky spotlights would be outlawed from dusk to dawn for ten months of the year.
\nThe draft also demands that any new streetlights and other outdoor lights be installed in such a way as to minimise the effect on plants, insects and other animals.
\nThe use of weed-killers and insecticides would also be banned in national parks and within five to ten metres of major bodies of water, while orchards and dry-stone walls are to be protected as natural habitats for insects.
\nThe proposed reforms are part of the German government’s more general<\/a> “insect protection action plan”, which was announced last September under growing pressure from environmental and conservation activists. <\/p>\n

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\n Bavarians were unexpectedly enthusiastic about saving bees in a 2019 petition.
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Weedkiller<\/b>
\nAttention will now turn to the agriculture ministry, which is under pressure to deliver on promises such as an overall reduction in the use of pesticides.
\nMost notably, Germany said last September that it would phase out the controversial weed killer glyphosate as part of the insect action plan.
\nOn Wednesday, environmentalists welcomed the draft law but urged further action from the agriculture ministry.
\n“We will not stop insect decline with tinkering alone,” said Rolf Sommer, a director at the German chapter of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
\nThe environment ministry’s proposals were “a starting block for more insect protection”, but more reforms were needed to pesticide regulations he added.
\nThe German Nature Conservation Association (DNR) meanwhile called on agriculture minister Julia Kloeckner to “do her homework” and deliver on the promise to phase out glyphosate by 2023.
\nIn the past year, Germany has repeatedly made headlines with its efforts to protect insects.
\nLast April, the state government of Bavaria was caught off guard by a wildly popular petition calling for greater protection of bees.
\nRather than putting the petition to a referendum, the state simply passed it straight into law after 1.75 million people signed it in a matter of months.
\nEarlier this year, electric car giant Tesla faced delays to the construction of its new “gigafactory” outside Berlin due to the relocation of several ant colonies away from the building site.<\/p>\n

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