As a "shut up" to the people who follow the bad math of domestic cats wiping out millions of animals each year (yet despite over 1000+ years of domestic cats in the UK those species are still here). Here we can estimate based on real body counts ands I can assure you that no cats were driving the vehicles.
How many animals are killed on the roads UK?
In Britain annual road casualties are estimated to account for 100,000 foxes, 100,000 hedgehogs, 50,000 badgers and 30,000-50,000 deer. Badgers were previously estimated at 65,000+ killed each year (and ignore the 250,000 humans have wiped out in a programme of extermination).
Ignore me and let's see what the Wikipedia entry on road kill has to say
In the United States, over 1 million vertebrate animals are killed by vehicle collisions every day. Globally, the number amounts to roughly 5.5 million killed per day, which when extrapolated climbs to over 2 billion annually.
A year-long study in northern India in an agricultural landscape covering only 20 km of road identified 133 road kills of 33 species comprising amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. The study compared all species seen along the road and estimated that traffic killed individuals of 30% of amphibian species, 25% of reptile species, 16% of birds, and 27% of mammals.
I checked and none of the drivers was identified as being a cat (forgive the black humour it comes with the work)
French wildlife overpass
We like to scapegoat an animal for the destruction we cause and even the poor hedgehog was the victim of bounty killing and are still being killed anywhere ground nesting 'sport birds' are kept. Oh, the badger was blamed for their declining numbers....then the fox. Never humans.
We blame the grey squirrel for the decline in red squirrels and yet they were released and merely replaced the British red squirrel that 'sportsmen' had wiped out by the 1860s...they then imported more.
We are now legally exterminating a 'protected species' (badger) based on bad science and corruption as the cause of bovine tb.
Foxes are now declining as a species. There are other species declining at an alarming rate in the UK and that is not due to fluffy the cat.
Please do not write"cats are an invasive species" because they are not. There were cats of a number of types before humans started colonising Britain -oh; we managed to wipe out the surviving lynx and then the wild cats. Humans are a true invasive species that kills everything and anything for fun or because they simply do not care.
Stop blaming every animal in existence and look in the mirror to see the real wildlife destroyer.
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