As Signify releases on its website, the company has equipped Red Bull Salzburg’s football academy with football pitch lighting that has less impacts on natural life. The goal in this project was to provide superior training in optimal conditions and to carry on late-night and early-morning trainings that weren’t disruptive to the nocturnal creatures populating the surrounding area.
As Signify explained, artificial light from outdoor facilities often create light pollution for nocturnal animals and insects, altering the nighttime habitat, negatively impacting reproduction behaviors and reducing populations.Therefore warm white light tones that don’t exceed 3,000 K are recommended.
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Signify has also involved in an animal-friendly lighting project in 2018 for the Dutch town of Zuidhoek-Nieuwkoop. Signify helps to installed lights that emit a red color, which is bat friendly and its wavelength does not interfere with the bat’s internal compass, fundamental for safe nighttime navigation.
As Singnify concluded “from bats to moths to people, Signify’s lighting solutions can meet the needs of multiple parties. And for the Red Bull Football Academy, their on-pitch wins now translate into a win for the surrounding winged creatures, who can now conduct their nightly business unbothered.”sm.
