New Highway Monitoring Efforts in Greece: the Egnatia Motorway vertical axis 'Siatista — Kastoria — Kristalopigi' project

摘要

Determining and understanding mortality factors and species threats is essential in defining and implementing effective conservation actions. Greece has witnessed in recent years a dramatic increase in bear – vehicle collisions; since 1998 there have been 44 collisions, 28 of which were fatal to bears. Considering the potentially devastating effects that the construction of highways might have on local brown bear populations and their habitat, the Greek State has been funding two highway monitoring projects: the first one, now-completed "Egnatia" highway and the second one at the "E65" highway, which is still under construction.