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World’s Biggest Wildlife Crossing Will Protect Animals From Drivers on the 101 in Los Angeles
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World’s Biggest Wildlife Crossing Will Protect Animals From Drivers on the 101 in Los Angeles

To save LA county's cougars, donors are raising money for the world's largest wildlife crossing over busy 101 freeway in Liberty County.

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Running through the second-largest city in the country, and possessing of the most notorious traffic patterns, the 101 freeway in Los Angeles County is about to get a green makeover with the largest wildlife crossing overpass on Earth.

LA County has a large mountain lion population, but the extensive development of the area and surrounding cities has created pockets of isolated habitat sliced up by immense roads like the 101, 110, and 405. This creates problems of not only the risk of lions attempting to cross the road and being killed by cars.

“We know from science what’s going on there, and it’s a little deeper than just that the animals are getting hit by cars,” Beth Pratt of the National Wildlife Federation, one of several partner organizations working on the project, explained to Fast Company. “They are becoming genetically isolated, because animals cannot move into the small islands of habitat that are created by our freeways.”