Dr Yun Wang is an researcher professor at the China Academy of Transportation Sciences (CATS). He obtained his PhD from the China Academy of Sciences in road, landscape and ecological protection in 2007. In 2005, he translated Road Ecology: Science and Solution by Richard Forman into Chinese and in 2009, he co‐wrote Road Ecology in China. His research now focuses on the interactions of roads and wildlife, landscape fragmentation and road ecology.