Ocelots roadkills in 2020, Costa Rica
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Environmental Guide: Wildlife Friendly Roads
Presenting the Environmental Guide: Wildlife Friendly Roads at ICOET
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This guide is the tool used to collect wildlife data on roads to identify the impact and recommed measures for Costa Rica. It can be inpmenented on new road projects and for existing roads. Since 2015, this guide is used by Costa Rican Government to implement masures on new road projects. We started implementing it on exisitng roads since 2020.
1. Government participation;
2. Funding for the data collection;
3. Legislation requesting measures to reduce development impact on wildlife;
4. Inclusion on the Environmental Impact Assesment;
5. Funding for the implementation of measures to prevent or reduce road impact;
In many countries of Mesoamerican region, guidance is needed to reduce road impact. So this document can be adapted to local characteristics and to legislation of the country to start the implementaiton of measures on roads for wildlife;