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Highway crossings benefit Banff wildlife
Highways cutting through natural landscapes can kill wildlife in vehicle collisions, fragment their habitat and disconnect their populations. Structures built during the past three decades to help animals cross a national highway traversing Banff National ...
Wildlife crossings program reduces crashes, saves lives
Broad coalition pushes Congress to increase funding for federal wildlife crossings program
Congress seeks permanent funding for wildlife crossing
... people and cost more than $10 billion each year, all while killing up to 2 million large animals including white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and endangered species from the Hawaiian goose (Branta sandvicensis) to the San ...
Could more crossings help West Coast wildlife?
Highway 97 runs from California to the Canadian border along the spine of the Cascades. It crosses elk (Cervus canadensis), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and pronghorn (Antilocapra Americana) ranges, resulting in hundreds of animal deaths ...
Senate committee advances bill funding wildlife crossings
... states have already made significant progress in addressing wildlife collisions. For example, Montana has 110 established wildlife crossings such as under- and over-passes, fencing and animal detection systems. Wyoming has 16 wildlife crossing structures in ...
Reduced speed limit doesn’t improve safety for ungulates
Road strikes are a major cause of death for ungulates across the world—in Wyoming alone, an average of about 7,500 big game animals are killed every year. “Roads can be a big problem for big ...
Conference highlights: from conflicts to inclusion
... issues, experts at a panel discussion on wildlife corridor science agreed. Speakers shared recent research on wildlife crossings, as well as state actions and federal legislation meant to reduce accidents on highways and maintain species ...
Bridges to safety
... in Florida, bighorn sheep in California, and red-bellied turtles in Alabama.” For these and other species, wildlife crossings could make a huge difference. Wildlife bridges and underpasses can save money and lives — both human ...
How do Yellowstone’s large mammals beat the heat?
Animals can find relief from rising summer temperatures by moving around their environments
Habitat Fragmentation Leads to Mountain Lion Deaths
Only one mountain lion has been known to successfully make it across California’s Interstate 15 from the east side to the west since 2001. The sole male animal, known as M86, may have been the ...
Wild Cam: Highway blocks wolverine females from dispersing south
... flowing across the highway and the population was connected. When Parks Canada decided to extend Trans-Canada wildlife crossings to the rest of Banff and Yoho National Park, west of Banff, it embarked on a population ...
The Nov/Dec issue of The Wildlife Professional
... throughout the decades and some of the ways researchers are using tracking devices to uncover information about animal migration and movement that has been used to inform management like highway crossings and purchases of land ...
Roadkill can soon become dinner in Oregon
Wildlife killed in road collisions can one day be put on people’s plates in Oregon after the state legislature passed a bill meant to prevent useable meat from going to waste. Although neighboring states such ...
Wild Cam: Anteaters struggle with forest loss
... no eyeshine to alert oncoming motorists, giant anteaters started turning up as roadkill in droves. Brazil’s Wild Animal Conservation Institute (ICAS), a nonprofit organization, began collaring and tracking anteaters in 2017 to get a better ...
Manatees have crossed over to the Pacific
... Panama and Costa Rica for a decade, received a call from Panama Canal Authorities who spotted an animal from an oil vessel. As he and his colleague reported in a study published recently in Marine ...
New big game migration maps help inform management
... you have all the mountains and plains systems we have in the West, for a lot of animals, they need to migrate to make a good living on that landscape to go up in the ...
For wildlife in rehab centers, humans are the culprit
Most wildlife treated in rehabilitation centers were brought there as a result of human disturbance. By examining wildlife rehab records, wildlife managers can discover previously unknown causes for the decrease of animal populations in a ...
Watch: Beavers provide key ecosystem services
... service,” environmental scientist Ben Goldfarb told the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Goldfarb the author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet and Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of ...
