lights out & lights out louisville
About Lights Out
Lights Out is a national effort led by the Audubon Society to make migration safer for birds. Advocates work with residents, commercial building owners and managers, and public officials to voluntarily turn off unnecessary lights during periods when artificial lighting is most likely to affect migrating or nocturnal birds. (In Louisville, that’s April and May in the spring, and September and October in the fall.)
Our mission
As a designated Lights Out program, Lights Out Louisville—a local conservation initiative sponsored by the Louisville Audubon Society—aims to help our community understand the risks of artificial nighttime lighting for migratory and nocturnal birds.
Our vision
Lights Out Louisville envisions a time when migratory bird species can safely travel through, rest, and refuel in our region during their twice-annual nighttime journeys—without suffering needless injuries and deaths due to exhaustion, disorientation, and building and window collisions.
The louisville audubon society
About Louisville Audubon
The Louisville Audubon Society is the regional chapter of the National Audubon Society and a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Our mission
LAS works to conserve and restore natural ecosystems—focusing on birds as well as other wildlife and their habitats—for the benefit of humanity and the Earth’s biological diversity.
Our efforts
We partner with like-minded local and national organizations and programs—such as the National Audubon Society and Lights Out—to create and conserve habitat; educate the public about the benefits that birds offer humans; and increase awareness of the perils that birds and other wildlife face in an increasingly human-dominated world.
Our supporters
Lights Out Louisville thanks our commercial and nonprofit partners for choosing to reduce their night lighting during peak bird migration months.
Join them: Enroll in the Lights Out Louisville program at no cost, and we’ll highlight your organization below. Any business, organization, or owner, operator, or tenant of a commercial (non-residential) building is eligible.
Learn more about our partnership program, and fill out a short form to enroll your organization.
Click the logos to visit these organizations’ websites, and consider supporting them with your business or a donation, as applicable.
