This is a Dutch video about the beaver‘s return to Drenthe province.
Translated from Dutch news agency ANP:
Limburg gets first beaver tunnel
02 March 2010 15:56
The first beaver tunnel in the Netherlands will be open next week in nature reserve Leerkeven in Panheel. The tunnel should prevent more beavers from being run over while crossing to another pond.
According to a spokeswoman for Maasgouw local authority, in recent years eleven beavers lost their lives. Cars on the local road killed them.
Once again, Limburg, after an absence of two centuries, has a beaver population. The first beavers reached the province twenty years ago from the German Eifel hills. In order to improve the genetic basis of the population, in 2002 and 2004 thirty additional beavers have been released in various locations.
On 12 March, the tunnel will be open.
Canada: Wildlife bridge for Ontario highway: here.
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DENVER — A New York firm has won an international contest to design a highway wildlife crossing near Vail.
The winning design, announced Sunday, is for a broad overpass covered by trees, shrubs and grasses to blend in with the landscape on either side of Interstate 70. It’s aimed at reducing the number of collisions between cars and wildlife like deer, coyote and bighorn sheep.
The Denver Post reports that the design by HNTB with Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates would allow crews to build the overpass without shutting down traffic.
The Colorado Department of Transportation worked with the Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University to solicit designs. However, Colorado doesn’t have the money to build the overpass any time soon.
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