6. What are the impacts
from roads?
Positive Impacts
• Improving quality of life
• Better access to schools and clinics
• Promoting development of areas
• More rapid movement of goods and
services
• Lower operating costs
• Lower cost of food and products
• Everybody wants a road
7. What are the impacts
from roads?
Negative Impacts
• Degradation of water quality
• Wildlife mortality and habitat fragmentation
• Barriers to fish and AOP movement
• Promoting movement of invasive species
• Loss of terrain
• Land use changes –forests to crops
• Pressure on reserves and sensitive areas
• Promotion of landslides and stream channel changes
• Damage to coastal areas, mangroves, and swamps
• High cost of maintenance and repairs
• Use of resources
• Deforestation and illegal logging/hunting
• Pollution and trash
• Traffic accidents
29. How big of a problem is
mortality, anyway?
• Vehicle-caused wildlife mortality
estimated at ONE MILLION vertebrates
each day in US
• Deer/vehicle collisions cost BILLIONS
of dollars ANNUALLY
• Virtually all wildlife species affected
• Hundreds of people killed annually