Many people have an attachment to animals and yet they eat meat
or use products derived from or tested on animals. Right or
wrong, they may justify this by saying that eating other animals
is natural, or that testing on animals to save a human life is
unfortunate, but acceptable. But there is little excuse for the
millions of animals, both wild and domestic, who die on roads by
passing cars. An old Greenpeace estimate suggested that
400,000,000 animals die on U.S. roads a year, which would make it
the #2 cause of death by human cause -- the #1 cause of death to
wild animals. This page exists to help understand why so many
people are unaware of the problem, uninterested, or apathetic
towards solving it.
The first "roadblock" towards appreciating what roadkill means it the word itself. It implies that somehow the road kills the animals. In the vast majority of cases, it is a car that kills the animal. So let's start again, and go to...
The Roadkill Page is a project of People Power, Santa Cruz
County's Advocate for Human Powered Transportation