CROSSINGS How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Malcolm Hillgartner epitomizes a fine nonfiction narrator. He lets these often disturbing stories of road ecology (annals of roadkills) reveal themselves in an understated way. A master of pace and cadence, his tone works with the dramatic statistics provided: About one million wild animals perish daily from cars, 40 million miles of roads ring the planet, and the fires in Australia in 2019-2020 killed a billion animals. Hillgartner's crisp storytelling style illuminates this powerful audiobook. Goldfarb has written an insightful work on the little-known science of road ecology and demonstrated how most roads, parkways, and interstates were planned with only the motorist in mind. His timely audiobook notes new ways that allow animals from white tail deer to turtles to cross thoroughfares without endangering life and limb. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2024]