Bridges for animals: The largest flyover in the world for crossing wildlife on California's busiest thoroughfare

It is very close to the beginning of the works to create the gigantic overpass that will allow all animal species to cross in total safety one of the most dangerous roads in California where, in its 10 lanes, investments by wildlife are very frequent.

He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him

Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, this is the name of the largest flyover in the world that will be built on one of the busiest and most dangerous roads in California, in the mountains of Santa Monica, to allow a safe passage for local wildlife. The bridge will in fact go over the famous highway 101, on which well over 300.000 vehicles circulate every day. (Read also: Bridges and flyovers for animals around the world)

This stretch of highway stretches across Liberty Canyon towards Los Angeles, forcing a multitude of wildlife to cross its 10 lanes and frequently causing an unimaginable number of collisions that have cost the lives of thousands of animals including mountain lions, coyotes and deer and also to 5 drivers in 2018.

The latest incident occurred on March 23 when a mountain lion died after being hit by a car.

The Government of California has therefore decided, with the support of many organizations including the National Wildlife Federation and its partners, to build a huge bridge 64 meters high and 50 meters long to safeguard the Californian fauna and its movements in a habitat that his is already quite critical.

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The start of the works is scheduled for April 22, a date that is not accidental since Earth Day is celebrated on this day. In fact, the overpass wants to be a example of a rapprochement with nature. It is no coincidence that the work under construction, which will be completed no earlier than 2023, will not have the appearance of a bridge, but will try to be as similar and harmonious as possible to the surrounding landscape with specially designed vegetation.

Authorities consulted landscape experts, naturalists and veterinarians to recreate an environment that is very faithful to the original and plant trees and plants all around to attract even the most hesitant species and ensure that they can set out on this path to reach the other end.

I wildlife bridges they restore ecosystems that had been fractured and disrupted. They reconnect lands and species that wish to be whole. I believe that these crossings go beyond mere conservation, towards a sort of long-awaited environmental rejuvenation "

said the CEO of the Annenberg Foundation who, together with other private individuals, covered 60% of the costs of the project.

Many have embraced the cause after reading the story of P-22, the mountain lion that in 2012 crossed Highway 101, to look for an area where he could live and pushed himself, disoriented, to the center of Los Angeles, having been his habitat completely upset by human activity.

The photo that made me famous by Steve Winter Photography

Posted by P22 Mountain Lion of Hollywood on Saturday, February 27, 2021

P-22 has become the face of the #SaveLACougars campaign which has long been asking the Government to start the construction of the bridge to ensure the conservation of mountain lions in the State of California which they could become extinct within 50 years.

Fonte: SaveLACougars

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