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

​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