20.500.12556/DiRROS-14689 COVID-19 related travel restrictions prevented numerous wildlife deaths on roads : ǂa ǂcomparative analysis of results from 11 countries Millions of wild animals are killed annually on roads worldwide. During spring 2020, the volume of road traffic was reduced globally as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. We gathered data on wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) from Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Israel, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and for Scotland and England within the United Kingdom. In all studied countries WVC statistics tend to be dominated by large mammals (various deer species and wild boar), while information on smaller mammals as well as birds are less well recorded. The expected number of WVC for 2020 was predicted on the basis of 2015%2019 WVC time series representing expected WVC numbers under normal traffic conditions. Then, the forecasted and reported WVC data were compared. The results indicate varying levels of WVC decrease between countries during the COVID-19 related traffic flow reduction (CRTR). While no significant change was determined in Sweden, where the state-wide response to COVID-19 was the least intensive, a decrease as marked as 37.4% was identified in Estonia. The greatest WVC decrease, more than 40%, was determined during the first weeks of CRTR for Estonia, Spain, Israel, and Czechia. Measures taken during spring 2020 allowed the survival of large numbers of wild animals which would have been killed under normal traffic conditions. The significant effects of even just a few weeks of reduced traffic, help to highlight the negative impacts of roads on wildlife mortality and the need to boost global efforts of wildlife conservation, including systematic gathering of roadkill data. wildlife-vehicle collisions wildlife crash reporting systems traffic flow ungulates mesocarnivores COVID-19 lockdown trčenja divjih živali in vozil sistemi za poročanje o nesrečah divjih živali proeok prometa kopitarji COVID-19 true false true Angleški jezik Ni določen Neznano 2022-01-03 10:39:15 2022-01-03 10:39:15 2022-08-20 03:37:09 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2021 0 0 6 str. article 109076 Vol. 256 2021 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 630*-15 0006-3207 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109076 58008835 RAZ_Bil_Michal_i2021.pdf RAZ_Bil_Michal_i2021.pdf 1 9766BDD9CD859F3F47EFAE7A8E2B4A7E 552253c8b9fdd89412a54e44d678720aabdcb7fe1ebe347b99e859a192f4bbbd cb2d33c7-17b6-11ed-b6b8-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=18826 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109076 1 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=18825 Gozdarski inštitut Slovenije 0 0 0