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About this app

The Citizen Science App Roadkill collects items of the perished on the streets animals and evaluates them. With Your Submissions You are helping to protect the animals and the environment, using the obtained data to identify hot spots and in cooperation with NGOs and public administrations entschärft.Gerade if you're much in nature or in built-up areas on the go, the app is a important companion to actively help this animal welfare and research.

Your submissions actively help in a scientific project entitled "Road Kill". It is charged with your entries, which animals where on roads lead to death and what reasons could there be for it.

What does Roadkill?
As Roadkill all have come on the road to death animals are designated. The German term Wildunfall falls short as a translation, because it refers usually only on larger mammals and occasionally birds. This is also reflected in official statistics again - data on animals slaughtered on the road are collected only for so-called "" jagdbarem Wild "". Data to all other species - even to endangered species, such as amphibians - are missing.

What relevance do Roadkills?
Roads are fragmenting the habitats of many species of animals - the ecology refers to this phenomenon as habitat fragmentation. this would be allocated to human living areas mean that, for example, the connection between the kitchen and living room is crossed by a road. Animals cross roads when e.g. are in search of food, to seek mates (deer, the return in the fall in search of mating partners large distances), or if they change between winter quarters and summer quarters (such as toads during their migration in spring). Animal species perform these migrations therefore particularly vulnerable to roadkill.

For humans Roadkill has relevance - Animals on the road make for motorists and motorists a great danger and a great ethical burden not only collisions with large wild animals such as deer, wild boar and Co cause annually to persons and property -. Small animals like hedgehogs and toads can cause damage, as always happen accidents by evasion and braking maneuvers.


Objectives of the project Roadkill?
Our clear objective is the number of road kills as much as possible to reduce, by the causes of road kills on the ground. The first step is to get an overview of their number, size and distribution of Roadkills. Through the collection of many individual data to a large data set, it is possible to determine exactly to what conditions (weather, time, ...), which locations (forest, meadow, local area, ...), on which roads which animals victims of roadkill will.

Aside from addressing these scientific questions, it is possible for us "" Hotspots "", ie places where it is especially common to Roadkill, identify. In the future we are trying to defuse these hotspots in collaboration with government agencies, NGOs and communities.

Furthermore, we see the possibility that motorists and car drivers, are precisely and depends on the year and day ago Roadkills warned by means of modern communication means. Similar to navigation devices and smartphones warn about speed cameras, could be warned about neuralgic sections of road where a particularly large number Roadkills occur.

Parent project Roadkill should help raise awareness of all participants.

SUPPORT:
A support forum for feedback and help is available on www.spotteron.com.

More information can be found on www.roadkill.at

Ratings and reviews

It's a pretty good idea. I can photograph images with my phone and set up my reports when I get into cell range. A big win for documenting roadkills out in the boonies. Thank you.

It's a great concept for an application, but whenever I try to start it, it shows nothing but a blank white screen.

I don't appreciate people purposely hitting any kind of type of animal they need to look around while there driving and when they see a animal instead of speeding they need to slow down to a stop and let the animal Cross the street

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* Großes Plattform Upgrade auf SPOTTERON 4.0
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