16 Sep

Helping Wildlife Move Around the World

Posted by - Jane Winn  :  Category - General, Road Ecology, Wildlife Crossings

The ICOET (International Conference on Ecology and Transportation) is amazing. There are people from Mexico, Canada, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Cameroon, Norway, Portugal, France, Sweden, Taiwan, Ghana, India, Republic of Korea, Nigeria, and Switzerland, all working to help wildlife get across roads. I especially liked the photographs of wildlife crossing rope bridges over roads in Australia – sugar gliders and marsupial possums.

I am sorry I missed Pittsfield Green Drinks tonight, but I was there in spirit. BEAT is a member of the TransWild Alliance, a group of conservation advocacy organizations working to protect wildlife and natural resources from the devastating impacts of highways and associated development. And I went out with other TransWild Alliance members for our own version of Green Drinks here. All our conversations revolved around wildlife and roads. Very interesting!

Tomorrow we go on field trips around the Duluth area to see what great projects have been implemented here.

Good night from Duluth,
Jane

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