The Wildlife Connectivity Institute: Working to keep wildlife moving, safe, and here for the future
Wildlife connectivity is the ability of terrestrial, aquatic, and airborne creatures to move about where they live, where they migrate to, and disperse from.
Imagine a world without Monarch butterflies. Or a stream without native trout, or a desert without tortoises. Imagine going to a wild area, far away or even near your home, and not hearing birds, not finding signs of mammals, no bees pollinating the flowers, and all the wonderful life that wildlife brings to our shared world.
Actions to protect wildlife start with people who care and get involved. Our institute helps empower professionals and the public get better involved in wildlife crossing structure planning and building, initiatives to protect land, and other actions helpful to wildlife.
We need to provide, protect, and restore connectivity and prevent losing individuals, populations, and species of wildlife.
Wildlife crossing structures help to provide connectivity for wildlife while also making roads safer for motorists who may be involved in wildlife-vehicle collisions.
Climate change is affecting wildlife and wildlands too. Wildlife connectivity in the face of climate change will require proactive work, now.
At the Wildlife Connectivity Institute, our mission is to help agencies and the public learn more about climate driven droughts, fires, floods, storms, and other climate changes that affect wildlife’s ability to move, and to take action to protect those movements.
The New Mexico Wildlife Corridors Action Plan released.
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July 2022
News and Updates
Public Roads Article on Incorporating Wildlife into Transportation Planning
By Daniel Buford, Patricia Cramer, and Nova Simpson
January/February 2023
The Nevada DOT and Federal Highway
Administration Pooled Fund Study Manual
on integrating wildlife mitigation into
transportation procedures released.
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Fall 2022
Montana PBS story on Montana Wildlife Crossings, features photos and video from our Montana US 93 Research
January 2023
Article of the Stanford University Press, & the West Publication
This article traces the development of wildlife
crossing structures across western U.S. and has
an interactive Google Earth map of known wildlife
crossing structures as of 2017.
September 2022
New Scientist Article
“What a meandering
moose says about US wildlife
protection efforts.”
By Lois Parshley
February 2023
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