Nighttime Ecology

Field Note: Night in Botswana

Kasane, Botswana 20 April 2026

In the conservation tourism areas of Botswana, there’s a very diffuse separation between 'safari area' and where people live.

Field Note: Nighttime Bird Migration at Ngulia Hills

Tsavo West, Kenya 28 November 2025

A Marsh Warbler weighs almost nothing in hand. 12 grams, the ringer announces.

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.