To Sunday Shillong,
Global wildlife has been devastatingly impacted by infrastructural development causing deaths of helpless animals being crashed under motor vehicles and railway engines.
There is no doubt that any modern nation will need infrastructure development in the form of motor able roads, highways, bridges, railways to connect different strategic parts for rapid transportation of passengers and goods and build economy at the same time. But unfortunately, not much care and attention is given to such infrastructure development when they traverse through ecological sensitive areas, densely wooded forests or mountainous areas that have been traditionally used by wildlife to cross from one end of the forests to another.
Motor and railway engine collisions in sensitive ecological areas in developed as well as developing and under developed nations are resulting into serious collisions and causing deaths of helpless wildlife around the planet. Unless serious monitoring and comprehensive, long term policy to protect wildlife is initiated by local and individual governments and the national and/or provincial administration in sensitive ecological areas; deaths
due to motor and railway engine collisions will continue to haunt wildlife conservation.
Thanking you
Saikat Kumar Basu
