‘Death hotspot’: we found 145 koalas killed along a single Queensland highway last year
‘Death hotspot’: we found 145 koalas killed along a single Queensland highway last year
Central Queensland has become a koala refuge. But heavy traffic on one highway is threatening a vital population of these threatened marsupials
Another issue with roads is that they divide up animal populations since many won't cross roads at all, making the populations less genetically diverse. The book, Traffication delves into this topic.
I started my working life as a Trainee Surveyor back in the 80s and 90s with The Main Roads Dept of Qld. I walked 1000s of kms of roads doing surveys, and encountered many many thousands of dead animals, not just on the road, but the verge, the table drains etc. It was a constant stench of dead animal as I walked and cars roared past...
They greatest ecological crime we have ever commited as a species is the road.