Tenant Notices & Events
Safe Flight Program
Each year in Canada, roughly 10 million night migrating birds meet their death by colliding into office buildings and other tall structures, mistaking artificial light with star constellations - nature's intended method of guiding birds along their migratory path. In Toronto's downtown core alone, some 10,000 birds fall victim each year.
In a nation wide initiative to help reduce the number of collision kills in urban centres, Brookfield Properties has created Safe Flight, a program that puts the onus on office tenants and property managers to turn lights off at night during migration season.
Through tenant communiques, internal operations procedures and tenant space audits, the program stresses not only the importance of the lights out rule, but also urges tenants to lower their blinds at night and remove foliage directly in front of window areas. Safe Flight can be implemented year round, but is most important during migration season, mid-April to early June and mid-August to late October.
In keeping with their leadership role in the business community, Brookfield Properties has made the Safe Flight program available to other property management companies.