Watch for Wildlife joins an International Movement - by Dr. Fraser Shilling, Road Ecology Centre

Watch for Wildlife Nova Scotia has joined a large and growing family of programs around the world working to reduce wildlife vehicle collisions on our roads. In California, we have the California Roadkill Observation System (http://wildlifecrossing.net/california), which we started in 2009 to give us a way to record wildlife carcasses on roads and highways. We collect the wildlife data to improve the way we manage human activities, like traffic and roads. We followed this with a system for Maine (http://wildlifecrossing.net/maine) which has similar approaches, with more widgets and buttons like transect monitoring and the ability to record “no wildlife” observations.