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Sustainable Mobility: Mitigating the Impact of Road Transport Infrastructure on Wildlife
Éric Dimnet Mobility officer at the General Commission for Sustainable Development, Chair of PIARC Technical Committee 3.4 Environmental Sustainability in Road Infrastructure and Transport , Ministry of Ecological Transition (France)
Éric Guinard Project Manager Ecologist (PhD), Leader of PIARC Working Group 3.4.3, Cerema (France)
Vanessa Peters Program Policy Analyst, Transportation and Infrastructure Programs, Transport Canada (Canada)
Roads and traffic cause many casualties among the wildlife population (illustration 1), in a range from hundreds of thousands to several hundred million animals annually depending on the country. This is an increasing global concern because global road expansion continues at an unprecedented rate and will mostly be concentrated in low-income countries where many of the planet’s most biologically rich and environmentally important ecosystems are situated.