highway animal overpass

Boing Boing: Animal overpasses enable critters’ “sex across the highway”

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We have had the overpasses in the Canadian Rockies for 9 years. Collisions with animals were reduced by 80%. Over 70,000 large mammals have crossed in that time. But is that enough to maintain a healthy gene pool? A genetic research study is planned.

stats from Parks Canada.

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