Ventura County planners recommend proposed ordinance to carve out territory protections so wildlife can survive.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ventura-county-planners-back-safe-passage-for-wildlife-mountain-lions_us_5c57aceee4b00187b5521b5b

Citizen scientists tracking roadkill on Alma Bridge Road have found thousands of dead newts this season.

https://baynature.org/2019/02/06/traffic-is-driving-a-newt-massacre-in-the-santa-cruz-mountains/

More than 2,695 California newts have lost their lives this winter along a 6-mile stretch of a rural road, their small colorful bodies flattened like discarded banana peels.

http://mercurynews.ca.newsmemory.com/?publink=0ab8a3d7d

Monitoring programs that survey many wildlife species at the same time across large geographic regions are important for informing conservation decisions, but reptiles are often missing from these efforts because they are difficult to survey.

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-method-health-size-lizard-populations.html