Building A Lifeline to Solve Brazil’s Roadkill Epidemic | WILD HOPE
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2024
- Fernanda Abra leads a crucial conservation initiative along the roadways of Brazil, where vehicles annually kill about 475 million vertebrates - more than double the country's human population. She spearheads over 300 projects targeting roads with high wildlife casualties.
Her approach includes installing underpasses and canopy bridges to ensure safe travel for terrestrial wildlife, like big cats, and arboreal creatures like monkeys, effectively reducing roadkill mortality. These structures also reconnect fragmented habitats, promoting genetic diversity and overall population health across various species.
Abra's efforts not only decrease wildlife deaths but also illustrate the successful merging of conservation with infrastructure development, setting a precedent for worldwide practices that harmonize human progress with environmental stewardship.
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I love to see that we humans can change what has become a reality for our wildlife. Let's bring that hope to every country of the world 🌎
i’m happy to hear that the government is supporting this
Браво дорогие! спасибо от всего сердца!!!! спасибо!!!!!!!❤😊
Awww bless you all! I always feel horrible whenever I see roadkill and it just does my heart so good to see all those lovely animals crossing roads safely
This is so hopeful and necessary. Anything we can do to protect and support native wildlife and biodiversity is a must do!! Wildlife across the map is up against so many threats resulting from human behavior, and roads are high on the list. Safe passages is a best solution. Great work Fernanda and team!
We have squirrel bridges going over the streets in this town and the squirrels love them! Great Job Brazil and elsewhere in the world! 👍
Thank you PBS for another great episode in this awesome series!
Magnificent gorgeous animals
Thank you
Respect from India
Hooray!
This is beautiful! 😍 I love that she found a solution and is helping us co exist 💞🌻
Amazing work 👏🏻
Very beautiful and please you’re a reason our next generation should be able to see this beautiful world… Shukria
OH MY GOODNESS!! THANK youuuuuuu so much for your amazing ideas that help our Wildlife!! You are my hero!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Had this worked out years ago in my head, glad it had came into fruition.
Wonderful!!
Keep doing this great job, Fernanda. Nice, great!
👏👏👏🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️
yes, build natural habitat bridge crossings for the wild animals; it worked in New Jersey, USA
F'ing awesome work!
How wonderful that 40 people are working on this project. How does one donate?
I suppose you can google the organisation and see what comes up?
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
At least there are some good humans out there :)
I mean it's a shame we're only realizing something so obvious now. Really, it should be illegal to build _any_ road without frequent underpasses for wildlife.
475 million in Brazil? maybe you meant to write worldwide, and 9 million in Brazil? see your first sentence.
I hope they stop the fires, no just for them , but for all of us…!!!
- So anything not in an expensive metal deathbox has to scuttle through dark underground tunnels like worms and rats and hope they don't cross at the same time as a predator, because the outdoors are the exclusive domain of gd mf cars? 😠
- 7:45 If truck drivers don't bother to avoid tearing the roof off of their trucks and keep going under the "canopener" bridge (as seen on yovo68's channel), what makes you think they'll care about not tearing through an animal-bridge? 😒
Fucking RUclips 🖕 keeps silently deleting my polite, helpful comments. No reason to think Twitter rant will make a difference
After having a challenging day, this has improved my state of mind since footage such as these are my main forms of escapism because it every day, it reminds me that despite all the troubles and tribulations we face, we still have a beautiful and unique planet to call home and many creatures to share it with. Watching those pumas, it reminds me of how their cousins here in Florida are also using those crossings to increase their numbers to ensure their future. Now that some of them were able to move northward successfully, the wildlife corridors that are either developed or being developed can make that into reality and it’s all thanks to the few people who truly care about these animals, just as we should care about our own. Thank you, WILD HOPE. 🌎🌉🌍