Where There’s Roadkill, There’s a Waze, Israel Finds With App

Israel’s largest nature-protection organization thinks the Waze navigation app has a use beyond providing traffic or accident warnings—reducing roadkill.

The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) has teamed with Waze to try to limit high rates of roadkill, including where car encounters kill or injure endangered species. If successful, the Red Road Atlas for Wildlife could be adopted in other countries.

Residents can activate the existing “Roadkill” button on the widely used app to report dead animals on or alongside the road. Waze will forward the data to SPNI, which will analyze the information to determine the ...