California to build largest wildlife crossing in world

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California to build largest wildlife crossing in world

An artist’s rendering shows a planned wildlife crossing over U.S. Highway 101 in Agoura Hills, Calif. It will be the world’s largest and the first of its kind near a major metropolis.
An artist’s rendering shows a planned wildlife crossing over U.S. Highway 101 in Agoura Hills, Calif. It will be the world’s largest and the first of its kind near a major metropolis.

 Published in APNews, August 20, 2019

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Like many urban singles, the mountain lion P-22  lives a solitary life in a too-small habitat. And he has a hard time  finding a mate in the big city.

Famous for traveling across two  freeways and making a huge Los Angeles park his home, the lonesome big  cat has become a symbol of the shrinking genetic diversity of wild  animals that must remain all but trapped by sprawling development or  risk becoming roadkill.

Hoping to fend off the extinction of  mountain lions and other species that require room to roam,  transportation officials and conservationists will build a mostly  privately funded wildlife crossing over a major Southern California  highway. It will give big cats, coyotes, deer, lizards, snakes and other  creatures a safe route to open space and better access to food and  potential mates.

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