You’ll have to wait until next year if you want to go to the Dark Skies at the Creek Event.
Tonight’s (Sat) event which highlights how important bats are to our ecosystem and how significant the issue of light pollution is, is sold out.
It’s free, but you would have needed to pre-register because of space capacity.
Senior interpreter with the Meewasin Valley Authority, Kenton Lysak, says the popularity of the Dark Skies event shows that people are starting to realize the negative effects of light pollution.
It affects humans and other larger mammals, birds, bats and other nocturnal animals and amphibians.
Lysak says the event is also a nod to Bat Awareness Week, so they highlight what bats do and how important they are in our natural ecosystems, eating up to 1-thousand mosquitos every hour.
Dark Skies is presented by Meewasin, the Saskatoon Nature Society, and the Saskatoon Centre branch of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.