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The Banff Wildlife Crossing Project in Alberta, Canada, is essentially a bridge for animals & has reduced animal-vehicle collisions in the area by more than 80% (discoverapega.ca)
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https://discoverapega.ca/stories/wildlife-crossings-key-to-highway-safety-in-banff/

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[–] pumpkinseedoil 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

We also have a few of them in Austria, are they rare in America?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry to say I've been in more states than not, and I've never encountered one. To be fair, my kids attend public school in trailers, so, you know, I don't think the deer are gonna be getting amenities any time soon, but who knows?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

From Wikipedia:

In the United States, thousands of wildlife crossings have been built in the past 30 years, including culverts, bridges, and overpasses.

The source article is from 2003.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

We have had them for forever in swiss too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Interesting, as a European I haven't seen them that much in countries I visited (France, Spain, Italy)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They're very common in the Netherlands, at least

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Might be their tallest land features!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

F you!

I mean it's true but..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Could be worse. Denmark is similarly flat, but has a manmade ski hill...built on top of a trash heap. They've got it worse for "goofy attempts at raising their maximum elevation"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Netherlands sincerely considered building an artificial mountain just so we could have ONE, but discarded it because it wasn't goedkoop

Which is the most Dutch fact I knot, closely followed by “you can cycle from the north of Groningen to the south of (Dutch) Limburg in just under a day”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've seen plenty of them in France, it's actually quite common. They are called écoponts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Very interesting

18 ecoponts in ten years: https://radio.vinci-autoroutes.com/article/le-succes-des-ecoponts-9639

Cette initiative est vraiment une nouveauté dans le paysage français, parce qu'en Europe, il y en avait déjà notamment aux Pays-Bas, en Suisse, en Autriche.

Indeed already present in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

You see them in lots of locations in Germany as well as the Netherlands and France

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Some parts of France have many of them above "autoroutes".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Im in the US and the county forest preserve system has the opposite for the deer. Tunnels under the roads. People could use them to but they tend to get muddy. I wish it was more like this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

From the case studies I we had to read in Enviro science, the tunnels don't really work unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

We have a big one here in WA! I do want more of them, though. Makes the highway look prettier, too.