Animals crossing: the simple solution to stop roadkill in the Amazon
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/09/animals-crossing-simple-solution-roadkill-amazon-brazil-alternatives
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Installation of eight canopy bridges in Alta Floresta has enabled 15,000 safe crossings by animals including spider monkeys and marmosets – and more bridges are planned elsewhere By about 7am, with dense fog blanketing the landscape, Gabriel Falquetto had already come across several road-killed animals along the ES-164 highway in Brazil’s Espírito Santo state. The biologist was on his way to Kaetés private natural heritage reserve (RPPN) in the Atlantic Forest, where he monitors wildlife and roadkill. Then he spotted the lifeless body of a primate on the pavement. It was a buffy-headed marmoset ( Callithrix flaviceps ), a species listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list. An estimated 2,500 individuals remain in the wild, making it one…
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