Success: Construction Underway on World’s Largest Wildlife Crossing

Target: Beth Pratt, California Regional Executive Director of National Wildlife Federation

Goal: Support building of large wildlife crossing over major California highway.

Countless animals are injured or killed every year on America’s roadways. These transportation routes also have the consequence of severing wild animals’ natural migration routes and therefore diminishing robust and diverse populations. This ForceChange petition called on America’s leaders to devise stronger strategies for safeguarding vulnerable wildlife. The leaders of one of the busiest traffic regions in the world have responded with an ambitious and record-setting initiative.

Los Angeles’ Highway 101 will host the largest wildlife crossing in the world. The plant-covered crossing will span multiple lanes of freeway and reconnect the Santa Monica Mountains with another range that the freeway’s construction had previously impacted. As a result, bears, small birds, mountain lions, and other fauna can replenish populations that had experienced a major hit from the cut-off migration routes. And the wildlife will be spared from other punishing hits as well, namely the frequent vehicle strikes that claim an average of one to two mountains lions alone every week. Local wildlife rehabilitation centers are filled with animals injured by vehicle strikes.

Sign the petition below to thank the visionaries behind this massive effort years in the making.

PETITION LETTER:

Dear Director Pratt,

At its completion, the 200-plus-foot-long Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing will be the largest such crossing of its kind on the planet. It will help countless wildlife such as mountain lines surge back from the negative consequences of California’s busy Highway 101. And hopefully, it will serve as a template for California, for America, and for the world.

Thank you for helping pave a literal path for wildlife conservation.

Sincerely,

[Your Name Here]

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