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