Collinson, Wendy J.Davies-Mostert, Harriet T.Davies-Mostert, Warwick2017-11-272017-11-272017Collinson, W.J., Davies-Mostert, H.T. & Davies-Mostert, W. 2017, 'Effects of culverts and roadside fencing on the rate of roadkill of small terrestrial vertebrates in northern Limpopo, South Africa', Conservation Evidence, vol. 14, pp. 39-43.1758-2067http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63340We tested the effectiveness of low-level roadside fencing to direct wildlife towards existing culverts beneath the road (underpasses) in order to reduce road deaths of small terrestrial vertebrates. While our results showed a reduction in roadkill count (from eight to one) along the stretches of road where we installed barriers (from an average of 0.33 roadkill/day/km to 0.04 roadkill/day/km), this decrease was not significant, possibly due to the small number of dead animals detected across all sites. Our trial highlights the challenges in acquiring robust evidence for roadkill reduction interventions and, given the small sample size, we were unable to elicit firm conclusions for this study. We therefore propose further testing of the efficacy of roadside fencing to reduce roadkill.enConservation Evidence is an open access online journal devoted to publishing the evidence on the effectiveness of management interventions. The other papers from Conservation Evidence are available from www.ConservationEvidence.com. The pdf is free to circulate or add to other websites and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.Roadside fencingRoad deathsBarriersAnimalsArticle