Road Crossings for Safe Animal Passage
Roads built by humans often divide animal habitats; animals must cross the road and dodge traffic to get to the land & resources on the other side - this leads to millions of animal deaths each year.
Underpasses have been constructed which allow animals a "subway" under the road. For example, a pilot project, carried out by the Florida Dept. of Transportation, built underpasses for black bears. Their research shows that all sorts of animals were photographed using the safe-passage under the road.
This is a simple thing that we can do to help animals traverse our roads safely; animal underpasses can successfully reduce numbers of "road-kill."
Nowadays, you may hear these structures referred to as "Green Bridges."
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Information Resources on the Web:
From International Primate Protection League's Newsletter, September 2010.
For more info (and to check to make sure addresses for IPPL are current), please visit IPPL directly at IPPL.org
Articles:
Dracker, P. 1996. How Did the Bear Cross the Road? Getting to the other side isn't so easy anymore. APSCA Animal Watch. Summer 1996.
*If you know of additional resources on the topic of Animal Underpasses for Safe Passage, please Email Me: Sandy Stahlman.
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