[NatureNS] Re: wildlife fencing

Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:39:54 -0300
From: Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Hi all:
    $21 000 000 to construct wildlife fences at sites of frequent 
animal/vehicle collisions? That's a lot of money, which will NOT go 
into  education, health care, social services, environmental protection, 
etc. Will the fences work, or simply shift the collision hotspots to 
unfenced areas?  And what will be their effect on  wildlife populations 
if they even more fragmented? I would have thought that driving more 
slowly, or not driving at all in fog or darkness, would be more 
effective in avoiding collisions. And a lot cheaper.
    Dusan Soudek

P.S. I thought that those stile-like one-way doors seen along fenced 
highways in N.B. are for people to pass through, not necessarily animals.

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