Peace and Love Tour
On the next page you can see our analysis of our road kill tally. Only animal roadkill is analysed here. We recorded the human road toll out of respect only. Raw data is found in the following images.
It should be noted that just because road kill is reported as higher doesn’t mean more animals were killed. We noted that in some areas a greater effort seemed to be made by local or state government to clean up the roadkill so only recent kills were visible, whereas in other regions many years worth of roadkill seemed to have accumulated and could be seen in varying stages of decomposition. Our ability to spot the roadkill may also have been affected by the time of day, light conditions, surrounding scrub and amount of oncoming traffic.
We also want to point out that the worst areas for road kill we experienced were in WA on the Nullabor for the first 200 km past Eucla, and the road between Karijini and Port Hedland. In the region near Port Hedland, travelling on the road used by lots of mining road trains, we counted 100 RK in approximately 80 km, giving a ratio of 1.25 RK per km, approximately 10 times that of the average road kill rate. This rate was maintained over several hundred kilometres so we estimate almost 30% of our WA totals was found on this one section of road, distorting the data for the rest of the state. Also in SA, up North between Coober Pedy and the border a similar effect was noticed, explaining why the SA (2nd time) data is 50% higher than the SA (1st time) data.
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Roadkill Tally
July 09, 2018
On the next page you can see our analysis of our road kill tally. Only animal roadkill is analysed here. We recorded the human road toll out of respect only. Raw data is found in the following images.
It should be noted that just because road kill is reported as higher doesn’t mean more animals were killed. We noted that in some areas a greater effort seemed to be made by local or state government to clean up the roadkill so only recent kills were visible, whereas in other regions many years worth of roadkill seemed to have accumulated and could be seen in varying stages of decomposition. Our ability to spot the roadkill may also have been affected by the time of day, light conditions, surrounding scrub and amount of oncoming traffic.
We also want to point out that the worst areas for road kill we experienced were in WA on the Nullabor for the first 200 km past Eucla, and the road between Karijini and Port Hedland. In the region near Port Hedland, travelling on the road used by lots of mining road trains, we counted 100 RK in approximately 80 km, giving a ratio of 1.25 RK per km, approximately 10 times that of the average road kill rate. This rate was maintained over several hundred kilometres so we estimate almost 30% of our WA totals was found on this one section of road, distorting the data for the rest of the state. Also in SA, up North between Coober Pedy and the border a similar effect was noticed, explaining why the SA (2nd time) data is 50% higher than the SA (1st time) data.
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The Grey Nomad
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Roadkill Tally
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Greg's Distance to Home Stats
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Oma's Story
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