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Wildlife Crossings a Huge Success
Burgess COMMENTARY
Peter Burgess
Wildlife Crossings a Huge Success
Car collisions with deer, elk and moose happen about a million times a year, but what if animals had their own crossings to move around safely?
In Banff National Park, the strategic placement of wildlife overpasses and underpasses has proven to be immensely successful. If implemented widely, such a system could reduce the extreme costs in animal lives and billions of dollars to humans.
And as climate change forces animals to migrate, their need to cross roads will only increase.
Watch this video from Vox to see how this problem—and the cost of addressing it—can be solved today.
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Wildlife crossings stop roadkill. Why aren't there more?
https://youtu.be/ND0D3bVbM7Y
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Published on Jul 3, 2017
A better way for animals to cross the road.
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Sources:
Highway Wilding: http://www.highwaywilding.org/
ARC Solutions: https://arc-solutions.org/
Wildlife-Vehicle Collision Reduction Study: Report To Congress: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/08034/exec.cfm#sec01
Western Transportation Institute Road Ecology Program: https://westerntransportationinstitute.org/programs/road-ecology/
'How Effective Is Road Mitigation at Reducing Road-Kill? A Meta-Analysis' T. Rytwinski et. al: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27870889
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5117745/pdf/pone.0166941.pdf
http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Nature/Wildlife/Wildlife-reducing-roadkill-13597.pdf
Images:
Leanne Allison/Jesse Whittington: https://vimeo.com/57614273
Cminna: https://youtu.be/D2yAVuacAoM
DKrieger: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gr%C3%BCnbr%C3%BCcke_B_31.jpg
El-polacio.com: https://youtu.be/E4KpjwcJs24
Benjamin P. Y-H. Lee: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wildlife_overpass_in_Singapore.jpeg
m01229: https://flic.kr/p/FVDvhe
Maine Audobon: https://youtu.be/WFUqPffRuEg
Larry Lamsa: https://flic.kr/p/Sbe5KM
Tamsin Mackay: https://youtu.be/AxfLddaWS7g
Ganesh Raghunathan: https://youtu.be/0bverFVj-OY
Isydia Vibes: https://youtu.be/imSMcX16ZzU
Washington State Department of Transportation: http://wsdotblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/make-way-for-wildlife-building-i-90.html
Wyoming Department of Transportation: https://youtu.be/slE0wem1z6g /// Roadkill harms animals, endangers drivers, and costs billions of dollars every year. In Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, wildlife scientist Tony Clevenger and other researchers have proven that constructing overpasses and underpasses for animals decreases roadkill and improves ecological connectivity. Many animals, including deer, elk, grizzlies, moose, lynx, cougars and others, have been recorded using the structures. Although animal crossing structures have been fairly common in Europe for a few decades, there are relatively few in North America. In The United States, the crossing structures that have been built, in places like Washington State and Wyoming, were partly inspired by the research Clevenger conducted in Banff. To create even more of them, Clevenger worked with a team of experts, including ecologist Nina-Marie Lister, to organize a design competition. The competition, named ARC solutions, was held in order to generate more cost-effective crossing designs that are also sustainable and environmentally friendly. The competition generated many new models for animal crossings and Clevenger and Lister hope that highway planners will adjust their approach to structure design based on them. /// Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o Category News & Politics License Standard YouTube License