Sunday, April 13, 2014

Brazilian ecologists launch app to reduce roadkill

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The Urubu app collects data on roadkill hotspots in order to make roads and railways safer...


In Brazil alone, officials estimate that some 475 million animals die from being struck on the nation's roads. That's around 15 animals per second, totaling more than twice the country’s human population. The Centro Brasileiro de Estudos em Ecologia de Estradas (CBEE) is working to reduce those grim statistics with the help of an app called Urubu (vulture in Portuguese), which uses the power of crowd-sourcing to identify roadkill hotspots across the country. .. Continue Reading Brazilian ecologists launch app to reduce roadkill



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