Interview with Wendy Jane Collinson (The Endangered Wildlife Trust)
IENE 2016 conference (Lyon,France)
The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) has strived to raise public awareness of the impacts of roads on biodiversity through media campaigns, extensive social media platforms and by engaging with relevant stakeholders. Initially our attention was focused on road impacts on wildlife outside of protected areas, since traffic volume is higher and collisions are often more visible and more threatening to human life. However, reports from various social media platforms have indicated huge public concern for wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) inside protected areas.Consequently, in 2014 we initiated an assessment of WVC rates within selected protected areas in South Africa, with an emphasis on using park visitors to provide citizen science data.
IENE 2016 conference (Lyon,France)
The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) has strived to raise public awareness of the impacts of roads on biodiversity through media campaigns, extensive social media platforms and by engaging with relevant stakeholders. Initially our attention was focused on road impacts on wildlife outside of protected areas, since traffic volume is higher and collisions are often more visible and more threatening to human life. However, reports from various social media platforms have indicated huge public concern for wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) inside protected areas.Consequently, in 2014 we initiated an assessment of WVC rates within selected protected areas in South Africa, with an emphasis on using park visitors to provide citizen science data.
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