Right of way
Right of way
Waze to help preserve Israel’s wild animals
GPS app aims to enlist drivers in marking areas most prone to wildlife accidents — data which will later be used to find solutions
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A man holds an iPhone displaying the Waze app (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The navigation app Waze has teamed up with an Israeli NGO to help wild animals from becoming roadkill on Israeli roads.
The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel has launched a campaign that calls on Israeli drivers to use Waze to report wild animals run over by cars in open spaces and outside of urban areas, which is an existing feature of the app.
The reports will be used to map the roads that are most dangerous to wild animals and find ways to reduce the number that are killed.
The project was launched Wednesday, ahead of UN World Wildlife Day on Friday.
Among the animals most often hit by cars are gazelles, porcupines, badgers, turtles, hyenas and otters. In January, the Waze community of drivers logged 1,416 roadkill reports.
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