Star friendly campsite, for stargazing

Energy waste

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Light pollution causes degradation of the natural night environment due to the emission of artificial lights. The extent of this nuisance is mainly due to:

- The use of poorly performing lighting systems: most lighting sends light outside the area for which it is intended. The most obvious example is that of the ball-shaped streetlights, extremely widespread and in which more than 50% of the light goes directly towards the sky rather than the ground.

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At the verbamont clearing, there are solar beacon lights to find sanitary facilities, motion detectors in all areas that deserve light and some bulbs are on solar batteries.

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Nocturnal fauna

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It is estimated that approximately 28% of vertebrates and 64% of invertebrates live partially or exclusively at night. Knowing that invertebrates represent 90% of the diversity of species on Earth, we understand that it is in fact the majority of living things that are nocturnal in whole or in part. For example, there are 4,500 species of nocturnal butterflies (heterocera) against 250 of diurnal butterflies (rhopalocera). We find species with nocturnal activity, at least partial, in almost all biological groups:

• moths (heterocera),

• crickets,

• spiders,

• glowworms,

• owls and owls,

• bats,

• rodents,

• herbivores (Red deer, ...),

• carnivores (Gray wolf, Forest cat, mustelids, ...),

• amphibians, reptiles,

• fish (eels, Large shad, ...),

• some passerines (bluethroat, blackbird, nightingale, thrush).

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In the clearing of Verbamont, in summer you can observe bats.

Insect spaces, hedgehog caches, a permaculture garden are also part of the ecosystem for the protection of nocturnal fauna.

The flora

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Light is first of all in plants (chlorophyllians) a source of energy. They use it in effect for photosynthesis. In a natural context, this photosynthetic activity, which supplies the oxygen that we breathe and the sugars at the base of all food chains (primary biomass), therefore takes place only during the day.

But, on another level, light is also in flora, like animals, a biological synchronizer. Light determines processes as vital as germination, flowering, the production of adventitious plantlets in bryophytes, the formation of reserves (such as potato tubers) or even etiolation (yellowing and loss of leaves). . Plants thus testify to a photoperiodism, that is to say that the day / night alternation and its variations during the year give rhythm to their biological cycle.

To illustrate this phenomenon, in the violet, the duration of light received by the plant determines whether they open simultaneously or remain closed. Depending on this, reproduction will then take place by self-fertilization (within the same flower that has remained closed) or by crossing with another flower if they open. The consequences of the action of light therefore go far beyond the sole plant because the existence of genetic mixing is a condition for the very sustainability of a species.

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A campfire rather than a screen

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Beyond conviviality, it is taking into account our action on the light that we produce .... Moderation is then done by itself! In the middle of the forest and far from any big cities, you can easily see the starry sky, so difficult nowadays.

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