The Compton Road wildlife overpass at Karawatha Forest in Brisbane is described as “ridiculously successful” by Griffith University’s Professor Darryl Jones. It’s being used as a guide by other countries. Australia still has only 5 fauna overpasses. Very few compared to France’s 380.
Roadkill is, a great deal of the time, ‘out of sight – out of mind’. We are losing a huge amount of native wildlife on our roads and Brisbane’s Paige Garland is paying respect to these creatures as well as helping to grow awareness of the problem. Paige could be…