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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

The article doesn't state how big the "area" is, but the employ fences along the sides for quite a ways in order to make it hard for animals to just get on the highways, and that while the 80% is overall, it states that deer and elk collisions went all the way down to 96% less.