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Here you’ll find easy-to-read summaries of scientifically rigorous, evidence-based and peer-reviewed publications from around the world to help you better plan, build and manage ecologically sustainable linear infrastructure.
Here you’ll find guidance, instructions and methods to help you plan, design, build and manage roads and other linear infrastructure that are ecologically friendly, as well as design surveys and monitoring programs, undertake analyses, and ensure the decisions you make are supported by reliable data and evidence and represent global best-practice .
Here you’ll find easy-to-read case studies of real-life projects and experiences from around the world to help you better plan, build and manage ecologically sustainable linear infrastructure. Case studies are written by practitioners working on road, rail, powerline and other linear infrastructure projects and showcase what worked, what failed and lessons learnt.
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Advancing best practice and strengthening partnerships among government, researchers, industry and our community to enhance ecosystem function, wildlife survival and human safety across the world.
We are pleased to announce the launch of the new RISKY Project website: www.risky.pt, developed in collaboration with Transport Ecology (TE).
The RISKY Project is building an open-access platform that brings together wildlife mortality data and provides analytical tools to predict collision and electrocution risks, alongside sensitivity maps to support cost-effective, biodiversity-safe infrastructure. While still under development, the website already offers mortality datasets, a compilation of citizen science apps by country, published analytical tools, freely available sensitivity maps, and a curated collection of recent scientific literature on infrastructure-related wildlife mortality.
Currently, members of the team are compiling mortality data (locations and rates from systematic surveys) to make it open access and to analyze the risk of collision or electrocution for birds, as well as the risk of extinction for mammals.
Through this partnership, we invite you to explore the website, use the available resources, and share it within your networks. If you wish to contribute with datasets, citizen apps, publications, or sensitivity maps, please contact Clara Grilo (Coordinator, clara.grilo@cibio.up.pt) so we can work together to advance knowledge and solutions that reduce biodiversity impacts from transport and energy infrastructure.
A single large truck killed 13 bison on US Highway 191 in 2023, yet the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem still lacks any wildlife crossing infrastructure despite decades of mounting collisions. New research has shown where existing highway bridges could be adapted into wildlife corridors, transforming the deadliest stretches of road into safe passages for migrating bison, grizzly bears, and other iconic species.