In collaboration with the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), Nkonzo Wildlife is proud to partner on such a critical project.
Together we are documenting the fatalities found on public roads caused by motorized vehicles in order to document the extent of the threat that vehicles pose to wildlife. This information coupled with strategic planning in the transportation industry can lead to a lesser impact on wildlife safety, movement and habitat fragmentation.
Transport networks, in this instance roads and railways are critical elements of human economic development and society, and global rates of transport construction will likely rise for the foreseeable future, particularly in Africa. Transportation has numerous, diverse—and mostly negative— consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. These impacts include the destruction and degradation of habitat, fragmentation of wildlife populations and their dynamics, direct impacts through collisions with wildlife and secondary impacts through increased access by people to previously unattainable natural.
The EWT’s Wildlife and Transport Programme addresses these concerns by working with relevant stakeholders from both the public and private sectors to provide planners with scientific advice on how to minimise or mitigate negative environmental impacts of transportation, the only organisation, currently, in Africa to do so, making the Programme at the forefront of this work.
Together we are documenting the fatalities found on public roads caused by motorized vehicles in order to document the extent of the threat that vehicles pose to wildlife. This information coupled with strategic planning in the transportation industry can lead to a lesser impact on wildlife safety, movement and habitat fragmentation.
Transport networks, in this instance roads and railways are critical elements of human economic development and society, and global rates of transport construction will likely rise for the foreseeable future, particularly in Africa. Transportation has numerous, diverse—and mostly negative— consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. These impacts include the destruction and degradation of habitat, fragmentation of wildlife populations and their dynamics, direct impacts through collisions with wildlife and secondary impacts through increased access by people to previously unattainable natural.
The EWT’s Wildlife and Transport Programme addresses these concerns by working with relevant stakeholders from both the public and private sectors to provide planners with scientific advice on how to minimise or mitigate negative environmental impacts of transportation, the only organisation, currently, in Africa to do so, making the Programme at the forefront of this work.
