EcoSmart

  The sea turtle population is shrinking fast, and as per the World Wildlife Conservancy they might even go totally extinct by the year 2050.  Now, you’re sure to wonder what it has to do with lighting or lamps as we’re talking about here.  You see, the declining turtle population has much to do with the way we’ve been lighting our coastline so far, i.e., with traditional lighting materials.  While other factors like climate change and warming sea water are also to blame for the crisis, we can’t overstate how a change in lighting systems and shift to LED turtle lamps can help preserve sea turtles.  But how exactly do regular lighting materials affect sea turtles?  Sea turtles have throughout their history of existence come to the seashores for nesting, and to that end they’re guided by natural moonlight. Thereafter, both mother turtles and their hatchlings use the reflections of the moon to get back to the ocean.  It is this process which gets disrupted by artificial lighting, as the