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The citizen science app Roadkill collects and evaluates entries from animals that have died on the streets. With your submissions you help to protect animals and the environment, with the help of the data obtained, hotspots are identified and defused in cooperation with NGOs and public administrations. The app is especially useful if you spend a lot of time outdoors or in built-up areas important companion to actively help with animal welfare and research.
Your submissions actively help in a scientific project on the topic of "roadkills". Your entries will be used to record which animals die on the streets and where, and what the possible reasons are.
What does road kill mean?
All animals that have died in road traffic are referred to as roadkill. The German term wild accident falls short as a translation, because it usually only refers to larger mammals and occasionally birds. This is also reflected in official statistics - data on animals killed on the road are only collected on so-called ""huntable game"". Data on all other animal species - including endangered animal species such as amphibians - are missing.
How relevant are roadkills?
Roads cut up the habitats of many animal species - a phenomenon ecologists refer to as habitat fragmentation. Applied to human living spaces, this would mean that, for example, the connection between the kitchen and the living room is crossed by a street. Animals cross roads when, for example, they are foraging for food, looking for mates (deer that travel great distances in the fall in search of mates) or when they switch between winter and summer roosts (like toads during their spring migration). Animal species that carry out these migrations are therefore particularly frequently affected by roadkill.
Roadkill is also relevant for people - animals on the road represent a great danger for drivers and also a great ethical burden. It is not only collisions with large wild animals such as deer, wild boar and the like that cause personal injury and damage to property every year - small animals too such as hedgehogs and toads can cause damage, as accidents happen again and again due to evasive and braking manoeuvres.
Goals of the Roadkill project?
Our clear goal is to reduce the number of roadkills as much as possible by getting to the bottom of the causes of the roadkills. The first step is to get an overview of the number, scope and distribution of roadkills. By collating a large amount of individual data into a large dataset, it is possible to determine exactly under what conditions (weather, time, ...), at which locations (forest, meadow, urban area, ...), on which roads, which animals are victims of roadkill will.
In addition to answering these scientific questions, we are able to identify "hotspots", i.e. places where roadkill occurs particularly frequently. In the future we will try to defuse these hotspots in cooperation with authorities, NGOs and communities.
In addition, we see the possibility that drivers will be warned of roadkills with pinpoint accuracy and depending on the season and time of day, using modern means of communication. Similar to how navigation devices and smartphones warn of speed traps, warnings could also be given of neuralgic road sections on which a particularly large number of roadkills occur.
Overall, the Roadkill project is intended to help raise awareness among all participants.
SUPPORT:
A support forum for feedback and help is available at www.spotteron.com.
More information can be found at www.roadkill.at
