Wildlife Collisions

Wildlife Collisions

      As the world's population continuously continues to increase at an unprecedented level, it is increasingly common for the world that humans have created to overlap with natural wildlife. According to a five year study about Grizzly Bear populations in Canada, just over half of the Grizzly Bear population deaths are due to vehicle collisions.

     Grizzly bears are not just the only ones affected by collisions.

     The world is increasingly causing damage to creatures of the forest big and small. Sometimes without one's knowledge, a simple action can destroy a particular animal's life.

     Many solutions can be proposed to help interactions between humans and wildlife. However even if the proposed solutions are effective in their intended methods to keep human and wildlife separate, we are one in the same.

    While building a fence, proposing building crosswalks for animals, and even putting up electric pads to deter wildlife from entering a specific vicinity, these are not the easiest things to practically accomplish.

      Funding, development, government restrictions, changing rules all block such ideas from being more than just that, ideas.

     The most effective thing to do is the easiest. Humans can learn to be more aware of what they do, where they are going, and how whatever they do in their lifestyle has a potential consequence.

-Wainam