Australia introduces a new system to protect animals from collisions with cars

Protecting wild animals from vehicles, as well as caring for the health of motorists, is an urgent problem in those regions where the population density is low and the number of wild inhabitants, on the contrary, is pleasing to nature conservationists. This imbalance creates some problems: people somehow need to get to remote settlements, and animals have to put up with the presence of roads and moving vehicles. Unfortunately, wild animals become victims of vehicles, and in Australia this happens quite often. Engineers from this country proposed their own solution to the problem, which at the moment was the most successful among such inventions.

Experts proposed to solve the problem of animals and motorists with the help of special sensors that will warn animals about approaching highways. The roads of the island of Tasmania were chosen as a testing ground along which the tested devices were installed. Each sensor mounted on the side of the road emits noise and light signals that scare away wild animals when approaching the road. In the case of Tasmania, wombats, kangaroos and possums are most often found under the wheels of cars, but after new devices were installed on the test area, the number of accidents decreased by 2 times. This result was very pleasing to developers and environmentalists, because before that there were obstacles to reducing speed and special green corridors for animals almost did not cope with the problem of the death of animals under wheels.

Experts are sure that such a system will be in demand in many countries of Europe, as well as in the USA and Canada, in which millions of wild animals die unexpectedly on the roadway annually.