This article was amended on 18 June 2020 to clarify that the bridge is intended to help the local population of mountain lions from dying out. Even in a giant city, we’ll make a home for a mountain lion.” Wildlife crossing structures (WCSs) enhance connectivity between habitats of wild animals fragmented by fenced motorways, but factors affecting their use by targeted species remain understudied, particularly in areas recently recolonized by large carnivores. “We’re doing this in LA, a city of 4 million people,” she said, with 300,000 cars traveling under this particular stretch of freeway every day. Spread across 103 sq km, the SGNP in the northern suburbs of Mumbai is home to 1,300 plant species, 274 bird species, 35 species of mammals, including some 50 leopards, and 170 butterfly species. And during the public comment period, there were 9,000 positive comments and 15 negative ones. According to the plan, the overpass will be similar to the Singapore Animal Overpass. The project has received attention from Kansas to Hong Kong. Tunneling under 10 lanes of pavement and an access road would also have been more expensive. We looked at the best solution for all wildlife so all creatures can use this.” “Some animals will use tunnels, some will not. Alliteration aside, it's for deer, raccoons, skunks, foxes, maybe even some bears-whatever animal seeks to migrate from the northern portion of the Watchung Reservation to the southern, across I-78.

It's a viaduct for voles-if voles even live in Northern New Jersey.

“The science tells us this is the better design,” said Pratt. This website offers a clue of what it looks like for the visitor on the bridge. It’s designed to blend into the mountains so animals won’t realize they are on a bridge at all. The designers chose to create a bridge surrounded with brush and trees, extending 165 feet over a 10-lane freeway. “It’s been a long legacy with all our partners but this current push for a structure – and an overpass – has moved quickly.” That idea has quickly gained steam: the corridor has raised $13.4m from private donors.

The National Park Service has been doing research at the site of the corridor for almost twenty years, but talk of a tunnel or crossing got serious a decade ago, said Pratt. Photograph: Marcio José Sánchez/Associated Press Beth Pratt of the National Wildlife Federation and Caltrans project manager Sheik Moinuddin walk near the planned wildlife crossing.

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