Ingrid Brakop Coordinator Material Damage Loss Prevention

2. Ingrid Brakop Coordinator Material Damage Loss Prevention

3. Wildlife Collision Reduction Activities

4. Overview: • Why develop these activities? • What are they? • Who is involved? • Implementation? • The Future?

5. Why? In 2001: • 247 human injuries and 3 fatalities • More than 17,000 wildlife fatalities • Property damage and injury claims of more than $38M each year • Thousands of vehicle and rail collisions each year

6. Activities • Wildlife Protection System • Wildlife Accident Prevention Program • Wildlife Collision Reduction Strategy

7. Wildlife Protection System • Insurance Corporation of BC • InTransTech (Rainbow Group of Companies) • Parks Canada • BC Conservation Foundation • FLIR Systems Inc. • OCTEC Ltd. • QWIP Technologies

8. Wildlife Protection System • Infrared Camera Technology • Potential effective tool for any mitigation plan • Raise funds for research and development from public and private sectors

10. The Benefits Improved public safety Fewer animals being killedReduced societal costsReduced property damage

12. Wildlife-Vehicle Accident Prevention Program • British Columbia Conservation Foundation • Private Sector • Ministry of Transportation • BC Wildlife Federation • The Public

13. Wildlife-Vehicle Accident Prevention Program • Education and Public Awareness program • Key elements to any mitigation strategy • Raise funds for research and development from public and private sectors

14. What is it? • Raise awareness about Wildlife-Vehicle collisions • Educate the public about these collisions and how they can be avoided • Research new and improved wildlife mitigation techniques/tactics • Fund Raising

15. Wildlife Collision Reduction Strategy

16. What is the Strategy? • A partnership between provincial, federal and local governments, insurance companies, police, businesses, organisations and individuals • It will require shared stewardship and shared responsibility from all agencies involved

17. Forest Management • Agriculture Policy • Transportation Maintenance • Wildlife Management • Insurance Corp of BC • Conservation Agencies/Organisations involved

18. Wildlife Collision Reduction Strategy • Estimated over the next 10 years: • Collision costs - $900 Million • 125,000 wildlife fatalities • 2300 human injuries • 30 human fatalities • Societal Costs $876 Million

19. Priorities • Human safety • Biodiversity conservation • Cost rationalization

20. Goals and Objectives • Research, develop and implement best management practices through the development of partnerships • Reduce wildlife collisions by 50% within 10 years and by 30% by the Olympic year (2010)

21. Key Actions • Improved data collection • Education • Policy Coordination • Research • Mitigation Techniques • Funding • Measurement and Public Reporting

22. Causes: Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions • Wildlife population dynamics • Wildlife behaviour • Preferred habitat • Creation /spatial distribution • Roadside attractants/Salt • Unimpeded wildlife access to transportation corridors • Human error • Speed

23. Societal Costs • Human injury and death • Species at risk • Highway clean up and maintenance • Loss of recreational opportunities • Insurance claims • Policing / Courts • Health care • Lost productivity

24. Measures of Success The ultimate… ...the prevention or reduction of wildlife-vehicle collisions within British Columbia.

25. Teamwork

26. Thank you ingrid.brakop@icbc.com