Why Don’t We Try To End Roadkill?
Lots of animals get killed crossing roads every year. This results in lots of dead animals, damaged cars, injured or dead people, and lots of clean up costs. Why not make it easier for animals to safely cross roads thus reconnecting splintered habitat and saving lives and money?
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their indoor cat, B.B. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
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Great idea! Let’s do end roadkill….and it can be done, too. This spring I drove coast to coast across Canada. In New Brunswick, crossing through more than a hundred miles of very wild country on the main highway, there was NO roadkill at all. Why? Because they had erected tall, tight fencing on both sides of the freeway that kept the fox, wolves, coons, deer, bear and moose from getting out onto the highway. Great idea and it works.
On the ride home, going through a somewhat similar highway in southern Michigan, there was an average of one dead deer each mile, and so many dead skunks, coons, rabbits and so on…such a waste.
Once driving across Oklahoma I counted over 300 roadkilled turtles in a 10 mile section. Not cool at all.