For a mountain lion, the kindest intervention for a broken leg is often euthanasia. But the cub known as P-121 was getting a second chance. Found in a roadside ditch in the Simi Valley near Los Angeles, he was one of scores of California mountain lions struck by vehicles each year. At only about five...
To the 300,000 drivers who stream through Agoura Hills on the 101 Freeway every day, the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing looks relatively unchanged from last summer, except for some leggy native shrubs growing along the outer walls. While activity seems to have halted on what is touted to be the world’s largest wildlife crossing, there’s...
GLOBAL NEWS: (CNA reporter Lin Honghan, Los Angeles, 21st) The California government and private sector have joined forces to spend US$92 million (approximately NT$2.8 billion) to build the world’s largest animal ecological bridge in Los Angeles, spanning a 10-lane highway, in an effort to save the endangered cougar. In recent years, there have been frequent...
Native plants are being placed on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing Tuesday, marking another milestone for what officials say will be the largest bridge of its kind in the world. Over the next few months, about 5,000 more plants are expected to be installed along the bridge — which stretches over all 10 lanes of...
The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing Native Plant Nursery has only one function: to grow hyperlocal native plants for the world’s largest wildlife crossing over the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills. Back in 2022, nursery employees wandered the hills around the crossing collecting a million seeds from native plants. Those seeds have been planted, replanted, nursed...
AGOURA HILLS, Calif. — Standing at a trailhead next to one of the busiest freeways in the nation isn’t where you’d normally find story time, but this story is one of a kind. “Please gather round,” Genie Tuttle told a group of early risers one Sunday morning. “I want to tell you the story about...
The innovative wildlife crossing over the 101 Freeway in Agora Hills is nearly complete. Beth Pratt, Regional Executive Director of the National Wildlife Federation, joins KCAL News to give the latest update. Watch it here.
Steve Winter P-22 was found roaming the Hollywood Hills, miles away from other mountain lions. Scientists fitted the puma with a radio collar which recorded his location (Credit: Steve Winter) Inspired by a mountain lion isolated from potential mates, the world’s largest wildlife bridge is being built in Los Angeles to allow animals to roam...
The second and final stage of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing begins in July with tasks far more challenging than the first phase. Part of this second phase involves building a tunnel along a 175-foot section of Agoura Road to connect the crossing to the Santa Monica Mountains, just west of Liberty Canyon Road. Details...
After nearly three years of construction, the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing reached a critical milestone on Monday. The builders hope to start planting special native seeds this month, and then native plants that were grown from seeds collected nearby. The next and final phase of the project will include the temporary closure of Agoura Road...
