Dark Sky Conservation

Fireflies, Light Pollution and Conservation: Sriram Murali

27th January 2026

Sriram Murali is a storyteller, IUCN Species Survival Commission firefly specialist and a Dark Earth advocate. His work centres around storytelling to emotionally connect people to the wonders of the dark, and the ill-effects of losing it.

DarkSky International’s Five Principles for Responsible Outdoor Lighting

15 December 2025

We are losing access to natural darkness through our own doing. Street by street, city by city, fainter stars are disappearing from our view of the sky above us, and the cycles of darkness below are losing their rhythm.

IUCN Motion 046: Natural Darkness as a Conservation Priority

15 November 2025

In late 2025, the IUCN World Conservation Congress passed Motion 046: a resolution that recognises light pollution as a critical threat to nocturnal biodiversity and calls for concrete action.