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...
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...
Above the whirring of 300,000 cars each day on Los Angeles’s 101 freeway, an ambitious project is taking shape. The Wallis Annenberg wildlife crossing is the largest wildlife bridge in the world at 210ft long and 174ft wide, and this week it’s had help taking shape: soil. “This is the soul of the project,” says Beth Pratt,...
A vision to provide safe passage for mountain lions above 10 lanes of whizzing traffic near Los Angeles faced a foe: time. Genetically isolated pumas hemmed in by the 101 Freeway were showing birth defects and needed an outlet fast. A massive philanthropic challenge grant allowed the $92-million Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing to advance rapidly...
The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing now spans the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills, but weather issues have pushed completion to sometime in 2026. • Builders plan to cover the crossing with “engineered” soil inoculated with local microbes early next year so more than 5,000 native shrubs and wildflowers can be planted. • But the crossing...
AGOURA HILLS, Calif. — The 10-lane freeway that slices through this part of Southern California is one of the busiest in the country, ushering more than 300,000 cars across the greater Los Angeles area every day. For drivers, it’s a nightmare: This stretch of Highway 101 is known as the “highway from hell,” the infamous host of the nation’s worst...
To protect the movement of wildlife impeded by busy roadways, a series of manmade overpasses and underpasses throughout the United States helps animals big and small safely get across the street, preventing collisions and saving lives. About 1,500 of these structures already have been built. Correspondent Conor Knighton looks at how they have protected genetic...
