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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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[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 6 points 2 months ago

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

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 14 points 2 months ago

They're very common in the Netherlands, at least

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Might be their tallest land features!

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 months ago

F you!

I mean it's true but..

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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"

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 months ago

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”

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 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

[-] Pofski@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] xav@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

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

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