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@graffic13

8 ай бұрын

We need so many more of these ...qe should of dome this 50 years ago everywhere

BEST news ever , WIN WIN situation :) finally Government doing GOOD . . .

@carsonrush3352

8 ай бұрын

This is the kind of content I love to see. People in every political party can get on board with these. For those with doubts about Republicans liking this, remember that Republicans do a lot of hunting. Anything that keeps the animals healthy is helping them to continue having parent-child bonding experiences and traditions for generations.

@paladintrueknight

8 ай бұрын

It was Republican presidents who supported and signed into law many of the biggest environmental pieces of legislation. Teddy Roosevelt with public conservation and Nixon with a bunch too.@@carsonrush3352

@ChristaFree

8 ай бұрын

They've been doing this for decades and the lady lied about the 90% reduction. Why she lied I don't know.

Awesome!!! More of this please❤

fantastic

Awesome to see this being done. I hope this trend continues and more states get on board with it. Thanks for this.

Watching your content gives me hope for the future is there are people in this world who are truly thinking about practical ways to change things for the better it's too damn busy do fall into a doom loop when you watch work you guys put out it really gives you a sense that tomorrow might actually be better

@ivanruiz2218

8 ай бұрын

seriously, i created a playlist called "hope" and added this video to it hah

@magesalmanac6424

8 ай бұрын

Yes I love how uplifting these videos are!

@paladintrueknight

8 ай бұрын

Look up precision fermentation.@@ivanruiz2218

Good news never makes the news, my thanks to you.

I don't know how many turtles I helped across the roads here in northern Minnesota. Deer are still in danger here. Raccoons and other animals are in the same situations. Road-kills are still very common. Breaks my heart every time I see them along the roadside.

Thank you for being one of the few sustainability channels that aren't doom posters.

@paladintrueknight

8 ай бұрын

Eco nihilists are ignorant fools.

6:37 that makes me so happy

A long time coming...we should be doing this everywhere and as a matter of course wherever highways and large roads are built. We need these on the east coast desperately!

Yay!!!!! I love to see legislation and projects to protect wildlife! 🦊🦝🦌🦬🐿🦨🦉

10,000 THUMBS UP!!!!!!!

I would like here in Brazil the government does the same

Great video!! Thank you so much! I’m so happy to see that these huge efforts are being made for the wildlife!

More of this all over the World! 100% Good idea !

Here in the Netherlands we've been doing this for years but, still not enough.

THere is also leadership for this sector , well-done mother America take advance step towards ... "The future wildlife leader "

The united nations should subsidise or pay 10% for these in poorer countries worldwide. It saves lives.

@paladintrueknight

8 ай бұрын

They don't have the number of cars we have. What's annihilating wildlife in poor countries is poaching and desertification.

Such a great idea! I would love to see these in Georgia

This is good but why has it taken so long? & why aren't these things in the design phase of every road, railway, pipeline or fence?

@paladintrueknight

8 ай бұрын

They cost a LOT, and government moves slowly. We private sector citizens can do this too; what's our excuse?

@knoll9812

Ай бұрын

Most roads and rail already built decades ago. Potential for refusing existing over pass when they are replaced as part of end of life

Thanks! 👍💪✌

Such good news. Thank you Leaf of life. Animals learn faster than you think. 90% reduction is amazing. Take care.

❤❤❤❤❤ yay

Absolutely fantastic !!!!

Well made video that got straight to the point, good work

I did enjoy this video so thank you for bring it to us.

Such good news! I had not heard of this in the USA!

On Ontario’s highway 69/400 south of Sudbury, there have been bridges and culverts for animals since 1999.

Great , uk should do somethong similar . I wonder if animals have a neutrality agreement on the wildlife crossings 🙂

that was so heart warming. Thank You.

@LeafofLifeWorld

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Brilliant!

I've seen the full video of the bears crossing and one of the little cubs doesn't really feel like crossing and you can see her panic trying to keep multiple cubs out of the road. It's a long video but really highlights exactly why these bridges are such a wonderful things for all species. ❤

Great project to save wild life 👍 congratulations🎉

Oooo nature bridges. I love those!

I love wildlife crossings. ❤That is all.

This is such good news!

Wonderful…

We need one in Massachusetts!!! You can literally see deer waiting to be killed on the side of the road waiting to cross with NO CHANCE IN SIGHT!!! Please, PLEASE... Someone with money needs to help them!!!!

@LeafofLifeWorld

8 ай бұрын

There are grants available for this, you need to make an application for it

Europe has had them for decades. It's about time it started here

I love animals 💕💕

Thanks

@LeafofLifeWorld

8 ай бұрын

Your welcome and thank you for your support

I'd like to see a follow up video on how to get legislation enacted for these at state and local levels. Thanks for sharing.

BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME.

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I was thinking of something like this quite a few years back, except I thought of it as something to be used for livestock and Wildlife .

How is it possible that the USA have so little nature bridges? Even the Netherlands have more of those bridges than the entire USA. 🤯

@greenearth2079

8 ай бұрын

Usa has more than a thousand, how many does Holland have because Google says 600

@azsunburns

8 ай бұрын

Are you aware of the size and human density of the Netherlands compared to the United States? Example, let's compare the Netherlands with 17.5 million people to the highly dense Los Angeles area, which is 3 times as large as the Netherlands, but has less than 13 million people. If you look at these numbers, you can understand why bridges might be needed in the Netherlands, but not top priority in the United States. Over 40 individual U.S. states are each larger than the Netherlands. The vast majority of the U.S. is still totally unpopulated. The animals have plenty of land to roam.

This is amazing. And here I thought Geoff Lawton was the ultimate authority. I would love to do some greening in New Mexico or Arizona. Are there schools in the United States?

I think this should be a standard procedure when building large human infrastructure. Its ming bogling that humans could build this without this before. In Poland we have this kind of crossings for some time now. But I think not nearly enough.

More rail would lessen wildlife collisions, especially if it was owned by government such that it allows use by a more diverse array of private train companies. This would be cheaper and add more resiliency in the long run than more roads and tokens, expensive wildlife bridges.

@paladintrueknight

8 ай бұрын

That ship has passed. Americans have taken to cars, and trains will never become popular. The future is self-driving cars chauffeuring us around.

@b_uppy

8 ай бұрын

@@paladintrueknight Pushing for electric cars will be coming round to bite us very quickly. We need denser rail between cities because it makes economic sense well and above over trucks, RVs, etc. Amtrak is how not to run private rail. Rail is about increasing access in a cost effective way. This would economically build up smaller towns, reduce energy use, free up land used for impermeable road surface, add efficiency in time regarding boarding compared to planes; personnel productivity compared to sitting in a rush hour traffic jam with your hands on the steering wheel; the ability to eat, or use the restroom instead of pullinetc.g off; frees up employees; reduces shipping costs;

Pennsylvania may soon get a wildlife crossing because the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission wants to bypass the Allegheny Mountain Tunnel. The bypass road will have a wildlife crossing, that is if this bypass ever gets built.

The highway by my house has like 2-3 beautiful deer road kill per month in the exact same spot. At one point there were 3 in a 4 day period . One day I seen about 50 massive black buzzards in a farm field that were in a circular formation and all looking to the center. Then I noticed a big beautiful injured buck that was laying in the center on his tummy with his head propped up as if he were relaxing and staring back at the buzzards waiting for him to die. I passed by an hour later and they were eating him. These beautiful animals feel incredible pain and fear before they die and it's completely unnecessary.

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Build it and they will cross.

I wish there are lot a these crossings. America is a place where only money matters. Although these crossings are to prevent human life and property damage not they will save a lot of animals.

Turtles have flippers, tortoises have legs.

US made itself such a car dependent nation instead of expanding and improving trains. Glad to see we are finally making positive changes!

@paladintrueknight

8 ай бұрын

Everybody having a car IS a positive change.

Funny to state the cost of accidents being primarily to your vehicle, then to wildlife and humans.

My dream is that a corridor is created from Midwest to southwest and bison mugration in mullions us re instated

Kinda seems like you’re yelling in this video. Lol I have the volume all the way down

This is all fantastic news, but I wonder just how cost effective this really is. $87m is being spent on the Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, a corridor across the Ventura Freeway that was originally spurred on for a single mountain lion (since killed by a car) to cross the freeway and have access to Griffith Park. I don't want this work to end, but I'd just like some fiscal oversight... we're not all Wallis Annenberg or Frank & Joan Randall.

@paladintrueknight

8 ай бұрын

A quality bridge can last almost forever. Think about the cost per year, relative to the state's budget.

@soulshadoww55

7 ай бұрын

Think about it in terms of the number of prevented deaths of humans and wildlife. The fewer accidents which hold up traffic and people wasting gas while waiting for the accident to be moved.

That's a very good job.👍👍👍👍

Just say "Interstate 90". "The I-90 Interstate" is redundant.

Very Cool. Are Tax Dollars actually doing good. NOW - How about spending are tax dollars to save OUR country. Just a thought.

@paladintrueknight

8 ай бұрын

California has a massive state budget. The Democrat mayors just choose to not fight crime.

I wonder if they might get a photo of bigfoot using one of these bridges. If there is such a thing. This country is the home of all sorts animals including people as well. And they were here before anyone else.

@RogerWKnight

7 ай бұрын

Please don't feed the sasquatches.

Should hsve been built right to begin with !!!! Think of the lives it would have saved ????? Both animal and human !!!!

Just stop build build build will do

the animals need some food and milk asap

I'm glad collisions are down but lol meanwhile human infrastructure is rotting

Road Safety News -- TURTL ISLAND IZ GALLANTLY SPENDING MILLIONZ ON WILDLYFE INFRASTRUCTURE

And spending Hundreds of Billions on conflicts on the other side of the globe.

@donnavorce8856

8 ай бұрын

And 3/4 of tax money on our own military. That equals the entire military budgets of the next nine or ten countries COMBINED. That's where most of our tax money goes. Toward equipment to kill other people's kids.

@kevdimo6459

8 ай бұрын

Yes and that’s not a new thing is it? This is a very good idea, maybe if more countries concentrated on this type of animal and human conflict it may have a positive effect on human to human conflicts as well.

@pulakification

8 ай бұрын

Do you want to live under Sharia Law?

@alanhat5252

8 ай бұрын

@@kevdimo6459 most countries do

@alanhat5252

8 ай бұрын

@@pulakification find out what it is & how it works in the *_real_* world before you start whining about it.

Bravo to all involved in this REAL progress not some woke communist nonsense. So many traumatic or dramatic accidents avoided.

@zapermunz

8 ай бұрын

Don't know what communism has to do with anything in the vid... I guess you just had to bring up some nonsense

@paladintrueknight

8 ай бұрын

The environmental movement is filled to the brim with socialists/communists - they just don't use the word, because they know it's unpopular. Here's a hint on how to spot them: they say that "the current way of doing business" is destroying the world, and things need to be PLANNED to change the inherent "greed" focus of business. You're welcome.@@zapermunz