Why We need more wildlife crossings

Why We need more wildlife crossings :

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Human population is growing at a rapid pace, unfortunately humans need more and more place by each passing day. we have built megacities by deforestating large chunk of jungles, many species have become extinct and many more are endangered, humans also need to travel a lot , we have builts highways and major road which connects are cities. In this process we are destroying already shrinking habbitate of wildlife. We fragment once thriving jungles for our own short term benefit though in long term it is going cause more harm as compared to benefit.

We can't stop every human settlement from building roads and cities however there is something we can do about this fragmentation. While roads and railways are necessary for development, wildlife crossings are equally necessary for sustainable development.

Let's understand this with an example, imagine you are part of hypothetical endangered species residing in dense forest, now due to a newly built road your habitate is divided in two parts, some of the necessary resources like lake full of fresh water remain at one side,while most of plants which you like to eat remains on other side of highway. Now in order to just fulfil the basic needs like food and water you have to cross a dangerous road on daily basis, many members of your species are killed in this process, slowly your species is almost finished, sadly this does not stop here, there are few more predator species which relied on your species, since their prays are gone, they will go soon, entire wildlife numbers slowly start dwindling, since wildlife is gone, trees are plants which are indirectly dependant on wildlife will also will also start declining, as a result Soon we will be slightly closer to global warming and climate change.
wildlife crossings can be created in many ways such as : overpass, underpass, Viaducts, green roofs, Canopy Bridge . wildlife crossings can not only save animals but also many human lives which are lost in wildlife-vehicle collision.
While there are some efforts are ongoing in developed world, there is still very less awareness about this in developing world, we hope that more efforts will be made in this direction in coming future.

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