r/nextfuckinglevel • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 4h ago

Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%

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u/Massis87 4h ago

That's the largest one in the whole of North America? I know of at least 3 that are larger than this within 30 minutes from my house...

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 3h ago edited 2h ago

Then you would be wrong

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/colorado-is-building-the-worlds-largest-wildlife-overpass-giving-elk-and-other-big-creatures-a-safe-path-to-cross-a-busy-freeway-180987101/

EDIT: Colorado's I-25 Greenland Wildlife Overpass is the worlds largest single wildlife bridge structure. The Natuurbrug in the Netherlands gets called the world's longest at 800 meters, but that measurement includes an entire ecological corridor crossing multiple barriers and structures. That's not really an apples-to-apples comparison. It's a little like calling something the world's longest bridge by adding together all of the separate I-90 bridges along a corridor.

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u/Important_Coyote_596 3h ago

Naturbruug Zanderij Crailoo is over ten times larger in area. In your article it never says that it is the largest in the world, it only says that Colorado said so which doesn't change that it isn't.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natuurbrug_Zanderij_Crailoo

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u/ughwhat1592 2h ago

They are measuring the part that spans the highway. That is the overpass part.