Online conference on roadkill organised by Open University

The Open University of Cyprus (OUC) hosts an online conference, open to academics, researchers, technocrats and the public, in the context of the European research project ‘EnVeROS – Environmental Education through Roadkills Observation Systems’. The conference, entitled “Road ecology & citizen science: Environmental education through roadkill observation systems” will be held on December 8 and 9.

In addition to presentations and workshops, professor Helen Elizabeth Roy of the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and Wendy Collinson-Jonker, manager of the Wildlife and Transport Programme of the NGO Endangered Wildlife Trust in South Africa will give keynote talks on ‘Engaging people in wildlife recording’ and ‘Using citizen sciences to survey roadkill at wide spatio-temporal scales’ respectively.

In the context of the conference, representatives of the research institutions that implement EnVeROS will present the project’s outcomes to date, the aim of which is to raise public awareness and educate about the Wildlife Vehicle Collision (WVC) situation and to actively involve the public in roadkill data collection through a citizen science approach. Best practices for mitigating the phenomenon of roadkills in the regions involved in EnVeROS, i.e. Cyprus, Italy and the Czech Republic, will be discussed to consider their wider application in other countries.

The conference will be broadcast live through the OUC e-learning tools. The live stream URL is:  https://tinyurl.com/y5qqo2od.

More information about EnVeROS can be found on the project’s website: https://www.enveros.eu/ The programme of the conference is available on the website of the Open University of Cyprus: www.ouc.ac.cy

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