• Mr. Siddharth Edake
• Prof. Amol Handore
• Mr. Shantanu Goel

Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary, home to endangered fauna such as Leopard Cat (Felis bengalensis), Red Giant Squirrel (Ratufa indica indica), Mouse Deer (Tragulus meminna), Leopard (Panthera pardus) etc. is also popular as Jyotirlinga or Jyotirlingam and lacs of devotees visit the Shiva temple each year situated in the core area of the Sanctuary. This results in heavy traffic load in the entire landscape reaching up to 1528 vehicles per day in the month of Shravan or Sawan (July-August) and 2600 vehicles per day on Mahashivratri (religious festival). This study tries to document the effect of this ongoing traffic on wildlife crossing the roads by quantifying the traffic load coming in Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary on an hourly basis, documenting the number of animal movement on the road, along the road and crossing the road successfully at different hours of the day and across the seasons and estimating the mortality of animals getting killed due vehicular collisions

Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary, road-kills, vehicle collisions

"ARE ROADS A DEATH TRAP FOR ANIMALS A CASE STUDY OF BHIMASHANKAR WILDLIFE SANCTUARY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.109-113, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811B16.pdf

"ARE ROADS A DEATH TRAP FOR ANIMALS A CASE STUDY OF BHIMASHANKAR WILDLIFE SANCTUARY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp109-113, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811B16.pdf