Dr. Marc Dupuis-Desormeaux
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Road Mortality

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In collaboration with the TRCA and citizen-scientists, we have been monitoring roads for wildlife mortality in the Greater Toronto Area.
  • Multi-year monitoring project at Heart Lake Road (see photos below- keep scrolling!)
  • Implementing mitigation measures to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions
  • Measuring the effect of the roadkill on the local turtle population demographics
  • Adding protective fencing
  • Creating turtle nesting beaches (see photo)
  • Anti-predator nest cages (see photo)
  • 3D printed turtles to attract nesting turtles to new beaches (see photo)
  • See the reports in the LINKS tab under TRCA Road Ecology
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​Photos from top left: direction fencing with curled ends (to return herptiles to wetlands)
Top middle : flat space at entrance to invite wildlife to use culvert. Culvert might be a tad small for that large green mammal!
Top right: ACO culvert installed along Heart Lake Rd. (two culverts were installed in 2020, in addition to the original concrete box culvert installed in 2016)
Bottom left: inside the ACO culvert.  Notice the smaller tunnel to give shelter to smaller herps/mammals that might be crossing and meet a predator inside the culvert.
Bottom middle: we pre-installed the drainage pipe with epoxy before the culvert was installed
​Bottom right: minimal damage and short road closure needed to install the ACO wildlife culvert
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  • Home
  • About
  • PROJECTS
    • Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (Canada)
    • Pancake tortoises
    • Lions and Hyenas
    • Turtles
    • Wildlife Road Mortality
    • Fencing for Conservation
    • Urban Raccoons
    • Birds of Tommy Thompson Park
    • Human-Wildlife Conflicts
  • Publications
  • TEACHING
  • TV
  • LINKS
    • Contact
    • Press
    • Google Scholar
    • Prof. MacDonald's lab
    • Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
    • Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre
    • North American Freshwater Turtle Research Group
    • Raccoon Nation (PBS and CBC)
    • TRCA Road Ecology
    • GLATOS
    • CBC-The Nature of Things
    • LinkedIn