one of te worst spot in tassie is between stanley and smithton. I tink te reason why the road kill seems so high is it is not removed and is left to nature (devils and quolls)and also the population of small marsupials is so high. This is because there is very little baiting in tassie and since te gun laws there are very few hunters. If you was to shine a spotlight in the paddocks close to te road where there is a bit of bush and open paddocks you could count more rabbits and wallabies tan shheep or cows. In places in stanley and smithton they dont need to mow te lawn because it is trimmed down to about 12 mm by wildlife (tis is one the edge of the towns). The road kill recipes is done as a joke. The down side is really the dented cars and the odd wedge tail eagle that gets hit
cheers
blaze

Thank goodness they were possum's and not a wombat.

Dougwe wrote:

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Thank goodness they were possum's and not a wombat.

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 thanks mate

wendyv wrote:

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In all our travels round Australia, felt that the road kill in Tasmania was far worse than anywhere else. We actually wondered whether, in parts, drivers went to extra effort to mow down the wildlife!

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 dont believe that would factor in at all wendy, its just the density of the animals and as pointed out already the warth in the road and fresh food on the sides

chheers

blaze

Ziobeo wrote:

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Great post man.

Its very sad that many animals got killed in road accidents. We should drive safe.

 

Power of Attorney

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 Ziobeo

Unfortunately wildlife is not very safety conscious.
The more animals, the more get killed. The heavier the traffic, the more possibilities of killing wildlife.
It's the cycle of life. While we don't like to kill our wildlife, it happens, and it's sad.
Most animals bump into vehicles, not the other way around. Seriously, check out doors and fenders and you may see the indentation left by the kangaroo's tail.
If we see them in time most of us slow down if we can.
There are places in Qld and NSW where they've constructed animal crossings, for tree kangaroos, possums and koalas.
KI has always been a sanctuary for native animals, and then cars came along. They still have to cull koalas which end up over-populating Flinders Chase National Park. They send them to Pt. Lincoln, to Wanna, to an area where their favourite trees grow and flourish.
I don't think too many people set out to run our critters over and kill them. I don't like seeing wedge-tailed eagles killed.
Mind you, they could have a go at feral goats and pigs whenever the opportunity arises.

How come there is a link leading to an ad at the bottom of Ziobeo's post when there are no free ads allowed on here???

CINDYYYYY!!!!!

We had a hunters pie (I think that was it's title) in Scottsdale, it was rabbit, wallaby and venison - hope the ingredients were not road kill it was yummy.

Happywanderer wrote:

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He must be a fake anyway, has anyone checked. Who has a surname Oprah??

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 there is a lady in the US that goes by the name of Oprah Winfrey, could that be the person you are talking about ?

Happywanderer wrote:

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wombat I'm talking about ziobeo who has an advertsing link at the bottom of his post. If you click on his name you will see his surname is Oprah.

Oprah Winfrey doesn't have a surname of Oprah so no I wasn't talking about her at all.

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 Womby can't you get anything right?

I checked Marj...

That's why I commented on the ad.

 

I don't like the sound of that rocket because they eat a lot of wombat stew too.

Some people say that every dog gets it's day, maybe in the case of a wombat it's a case of every wombat needs to keep an eye out. They should also look to the left then to the right and to the left again and if safe then cross the road but while they are looking to the left a second time we can come up fast from the right, WAMO wombat stew.