Request for data on mortality at power lines

[Steffen Oppel]

Dear Colleagues,

We received the request below from two colleagues in Portugal. I will assume that all of you would support such an initiative, and I will therefore express our willingness to contribute data unless I receive objections.

If some of you do NOT want to share the data that we collected in the EV NEW LIFE project - please let me know. Nobody is forced to share data, but rather than all partners having to explicitly express their consent it will be easier if only objections are required.

For colleagues from other countries (who were not part of the EV NEW LIFE Project) - if you have not received a similar request then feel free to contact the two researchers.

Cheers,

Steffen

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We hope this message finds you well.

We are Joana Bernardino and Ana Teresa Marques, researchers in the Infrastructure Ecology research group at BIOPOLIS-CIBIO in Portugal. We are currently working on the RISKY project, a consortium of organizations led by Clara Grilo, focused on developing and launching a web platform. We aim to provide open-access data and new analytical tools to advance scientific understanding of wildlife mortality risks associated with energy and transport infrastructures. We have, however, observed that many mortality locations are not easily accessible, hindering researchers' ability to integrate datasets from various studies, infrastructures, and geographic regions.

Therefore, we would like to invite you and your team to collaborate on this initiative by sharing wildlife mortality data from your studies, such as “Pursuit of 'sustainable' development may contribute to the vulture crisis in East Africa”, and joining as co-authors on the upcoming data paper documenting wildlife mortality at power lines on a global scale.

This initiative follows the same approach of the recently published Global compilation of Roadkill data in Nature scientific data journal. The dataset will include information such as the taxonomy of the species affected by collisions or electrocutions, the location (geographic coordinates), and the date of carcass detection.

If you are interested in participating in this data paper, we kindly request your confirmation by April 21st. Upon receiving your confirmation, we will provide you with further details about the data compilation process, data formatting guidelines, and the deadline to send the data (~2 months).

Feel free to reach out with any questions, and don't hesitate to share this invitation with other researchers or practitioners who may be interested in collaborating on this global initiative.

Thank you for considering our invitation, and we look forward to your positive response.

Sincerely,

Joana Bernardino and Ana Teresa Marques