People laughed when Canada built bridges for wildlife, then 250,000 animals used them and road deaths dropped by over 80% |
Building bridges for bears, wolves and elk sounded like an expensive fantasy when Canadian officials first proposed the idea in the 1990s. Many critics questioned whether wild animals would ever use specially designed crossings over one of the busiest highways in the Canadian Rockies, while some even mocked the proposal as a waste of taxpayers’…