Tag: Roadkill

As development increases in the Lake Simcoe Watershed in Ontario, Canada, researchers found building inexpensive road barriers connected to crossing structures helps save turtles. Lake Simcoe is just north of...

Roads have deadly consequences for ocelots in Texas, playing an outsize role in mortality for a small population of the endangered cat. As urbanization in the area continues, researchers worry...

Last year’s death toll for Florida panthers appears to have decreased from previous years, to about 20, Florida wildlife officials report. Almost all the deaths were caused by people. The...

Fencing entire roads to reduce vehicle-wildlife collisions isn’t always practical or cost effective, and it may not be best for wildlife, either. So researchers recently came up with a way...

When an opossum turned up shot by an arrow in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Lisa Walsh, a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, decided to drive up to check...

Wildlife killed in road collisions can one day be put on people’s plates in Oregon after the state legislature passed a bill meant to prevent useable meat from going to...

The most effective mitigation strategy for reducing roadkill around the world is using fences, according to a recent meta-analysis. As part of a recent study published in the journal PloS...