Research

The following resources support Wildlife Safe Activities around Tasmania.

Roadkill Related Research and Literature

Tasmania
 

• Driessen, M. M. (2021). 
  COVID-19 restrictions provide a brief respite from the wildlife roadkill toll. 
  Biological Conservation, 256, 109012.
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320721000641
   
• Englefield, B., Starling, M., & McGreevy, P. (2018). 
  A review of roadkill rescue: Who cares for the mental, physical and financial welfare of Australian wildlife carers? 
  Wildlife Research, 45(2), 103-118.
  https://doi.org/10.1071/WR17099
   
• Englefield, B., Blackman, S. A., Starling, M., & McGreevy, P. D. (2019). 
  A review of Australian animal welfare legislation, regulation, codes of practice, and policy, and their influence on stakeholders caring for wildlife and the animals for whom they care.
  Animals, 9(6), 335. 
  https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9060335
   
• Englefield, B., Candy, S. G., Starling, M., & McGreevy, P. D. (2019). 
  A trial of a solar-powered, cooperative sensor/actuator, opto-acoustical, virtual road-fence to mitigate roadkill in Tasmania, Australia. 
  Animals, 9(10), 752.
  https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9100752
   
• Englefield, B., Starling, M., Wilson, B., Roder, C., & McGreevy, P. (2020).
  The Australian roadkill reporting project—Applying integrated professional research and citizen science to monitor and mitigate roadkill in Australia. 
  Animals, 10(7), 1112.
  https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10071112
   
• Englefield, B. (2020). 
  Influences on and consequences of wildlife-vehicle collisions and roadkill in Australia 
  [Doctoral dissertation, University of Sydney].
  https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/23121
   
• Knowler, D. (2014). 
  Riding the devil’s highway
   
• Leurs, E. (2019). 
  Bloody tourism: Roadkill and tourists on Tasmanian roads. 
  In A. Hardy & C. Ooi (Eds.), Tourism in Tasmania (pp. 52-60). 
  Forty South Publishing Pty Ltd. 
   
• Leurs, E., & Kirkpatrick, J. B. (2024). 
  Wildlife–vehicle collisions in Tasmania: Tourists’ attitudes and behaviour. 
  Animals, 14(16), 2413.
  https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14162413
   
• Leurs, E., Kirkpatrick, J., & Hardy, A. (2024). 
  Emotional geographies of roadkill: Stained experiences of tourism in Tasmania. 
  Geographical Research. 1-12.
  https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12673
   
• Tolbart, S. (2024)
  Nowhere Man and the Roadkill Lady
  https://shop.fortysouth.com.au/products/nowhere-man-and-the-roadkill-lady-by-steve-tolbert-pb
   

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