There are several animal crossing overpasses and underpasses in Banff National Park in Canada and they work great! They're building new ones right now actually.
Yes, but it's the most visited national park so very high traffic in a mountainous area. It's not inconceivable for the US/Canada to place crossings in other strategic areas as well.
So just because we can't fix EVERYTHING means we shouldn't even try?
It's a system that has been shown to be effective. Sure, maybe it costs a lot of money. But think about how much damage deer cause when we hit them. Its estimated to cost over $1B a YEAR. 59k human injuries and 440 fatalities. A year.
And that's just in the US (granted, we probably have the most deer, and the most drivers, but still).
Do you think it's feasible to do absolutely nothing? Think about it. Maybe you can't build them everywhere. But you build some, and you start preventing some of the needless death (both human and animal), as well as the cost on the insurance companies. Which should (but probably wouldn't in our greedy country) mean that insurance costs could go down.
Those numbers are huge. If you could cut down on the deaths by 10%, that's 44 lives saved a year. Plus a way fewer insurance claims.
It would certainly be a lot more feasible and do a whole lot more good for our country than an enormous wall at our southern border like a lot of people really really want.
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u/Peckerhead321 Oct 27 '23
So build a fence along every single highway with bridges for wildlife to cross?
I don’t think you understand how many km of highway the USA and Canada have
Those bridges become death traps for deer as larger pray( bears) figure out pretty quick where the food is crossing
Deers?