Citizen scientists have stepped up to reveal just how much fauna is flattened on the world’s roads

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/roadkill-literally-drives-some-species-to-extinction/?fbclid=IwAR0nPHv4kiTMrn_zJbZpUkiQt8FpsietGMiHGrKgnhk51tv26oje7UZOFSg

• ByMenno SchilthuizenonApril 12, 2022
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On May 8, 2021, at the crack of dawn, shreds of mist crept from the chilly fields onto Ziendeweg, a country road south of Amsterdam. The rush hour traffic caused by commuters using the road to bypass jams on the highway had not yet picked up. But another activity was taking place. All along the four-kilometer-long road, small groups of people were carrying bundles of white crosses and quietly beginning to erect them on the roadside. When the sun came up, the first motorists were greeted by an eerie spectacle: 642 crosses marked the precise spots where dozens of animals had been killed by vehicles during the past few years. Each cross displayed the common name of…