This National Geographic article mentions our friend, Dr. Fraser Shilling of the UC Davis Road Ecology Center.
"As Americans stayed home in March and April, vehicle deaths declined up to 58 percent among large species like mountain lions, a new report says."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/06/decline-road-kill-pandemic-lockdown-traffic/
Jonathan Kolby contacted me regarding a new salamander disease that is quickly spreading around the world and he's using iNat data to figure out where it's going. If you find a sick salamander in the wild, please take pictures and upload them to his project:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/saving-salamanders-with-citizen-science
The emerging infectious disease he is specifically worried about is caused by a species of chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, or "Bsal") and the faster they can detect its spread into a new region, the greater hope there is to protect salamanders from disease, decline, and extinction.
Here's his video:
https://youtu.be/X6Pr8hzkiEE
I've given him links to our projects to peruse.
