Corvo island switches off its lights to protect seabird chicks

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorOn Corvo, in the Portuguese Azores, the public lights go off for the last five nights of October, so young seabirds can find the ocean.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFive nights with no streetlights. For a bird?

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFor about six thousand nesting pairs of shearwaters, Dale.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe young leave their nests from mid-October and steer by the stars, and a streetlamp looks like a very bad star.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd there are four hundred and fifty people on that island. So the birds outnumber the voters, and they've clearly worked that out.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe rescue group SOS Cagarro says more than thirty thousand chicks have been picked up across the Azores since twenty fifteen, about six thousand of them on Corvo.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorVolunteers search the streets of Vila do Corvo in the early hours.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the island's emergency crew at four in the morning is one volunteer, a flashlight and an empty cardboard box.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe Guardian says it's the only Azores island that fully switches off its public lighting. A policy with a perfect record of voluntary compliance, and no lobbyists.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorRating, ten out of ten.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSomeone on that island still left a porch light on, and the birds know which house.