Can cars that make barking noises, flashing lights and sirens and AI-assisted road signs help reduce roadkill?
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The animals fare far worse. According to multiple peer-reviewed articles, 10 million native animals die on our roads each year. Research last decade involving citizen scientists breaks this down further: 4 million marsupials and 6 million birds, reptiles and other species.The International Road Federation suggests there are more than 225,000 kilometres of roads in Australia.
Nathan Johnson, national product manager of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicle, said his division had been involved in funding the project for about four years. ShuRoo managing director Justin Gore says its corporate fleet customers have done independent tests with good results. Friends of the Koala says 71 animals were hit by vehicles in the Northern Rivers region of NSW between May 2023 and May 2024, and only 13 were able to be rehabilitated and released back to the wild.
Zhou says the first trial tested this in a zoo, the second on the university campus. “Currently, if the AI system is properly trained for the location where it’s going to be deployed, we can reach pretty high accuracy – like around 80 to 90 per cent – but if it’s moved to a new location, then we need to update the AI system again to teach it the new environment,” Zhou says.
Fox says when a female devil dies, often her children die as well. The devils give birth in a pouch in about April, and move their babies to a den in about August when they grow too big. But those babies continue to be fed and supported by their mother until about January, and would starve without her.
Dr Christine Connelly at Victoria University says there is some evidence, mostly anecdotal, that animals just adapt to the strange noises. But not all wildlife-crossing bridges need to be heavily engineered. For gliders and possums, a rope bridge at tree canopy level is enough.
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