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  • Germany spends millions on animal-only bridges

    09/18/2013 10:03:47 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 26 replies
    TheLocal.de ^ | 18 Sep 2013 16:32 CET | Kate Ferguson
    Germany is living up to its environmentally-friendly image by spending millions of euros on building bridges just for animals. Humans caught crossing them face a €35 fine. More than a hundred wildlife bridges are to be built in the next decade. Gerhard Klesen, a forester employed by the Ruhr Regional Association, spent a decade campaigning for an animal-only bridge to be built over a motorway in the town of Schermbeck in North Rhine-Westphalia. Man-made barriers such as roads and canals restrict animals’ natural movement, he said. That limits genetic diversity, which in turn leads to an increase in disease and...