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The widespread laying of roads and railways, construction of pipelines and power lines, digging artificial channels constantly invades the life of the wild – in almost every corner of the planet.
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The habitat of animals varies significantly, which is often leads to the most deplorable consequences. For example, last year in the US state of Oklahoma elk ran onto a freeway provoked an accident in which seven people died, and eleven were seriously injured.
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So that animals can safely cross the roads, for them to build special bridges – ecoduks. The eco-product imitates wild space and contains real soil, grass, shrubs. In Europe many ecoduks are living tunnels tightly enclosed on the sides of the trees. They are created so that animals do not distinguish bridges from the terrain on which they live. It not only minimizes human conflict with nature, allowing living things without problems cross artificial and often dangerous barriers, but also creates new places for tourists to visit. For many eco-houses walking is not forbidden, however you will do so at your own risk and risk, because there are always chances, for example, to be hit by a herd of those the same moose.
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Crossroads for wildlife first appeared in the fifties years in France. The innovation was quickly adopted by other European countries: Germany, Switzerland, Italy … In the Netherlands alone today there are more than six hundred green and most unusual bridges, the length of the longest of which is eight hundred meters.
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In North America, ecodukes became popular late in the past. century. Banff, Canada’s oldest national park, has a whole network of tunnels and bridges for animals. They were built after The park was divided into two parts by a huge commercial highway.
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The first eco-product is still planned in the Russian Federation to build in the suburbs of Pereslavl-Zalessky in the Yaroslavl region over the Moscow-Arkhangelsk highway.
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