Working list of wildlife overpasses worldwide – 2026 Update

The following working list identifies wildlife overpasses, bridges, and ecoducts built across roadways, railways, canals, and highways around the globe. Other synonyms used to describe these structures include, but are not limited to:

• Animal bridges
• Eco-bridges
• Ecoducts
• Eco-links (in Singapore)
• Ecoponts or Écoduc (in France)
• Fauna bridges (in Australia)
• Fauna overpass (in Denmark)
• Green bridges (Grünbrücken in Germany)
• Land bridges
• Nature bridges
• Overcrossings
• Renoducts (for reindeer in Sweden)
• Rope fauna or rope canopy bridges
• Viaduto vegetados (in Brazil)
• Wildlife bridges
• Wildlife overpasses.

The term “Ecoduct” seem to have become the most commonly used term in Europe and can be defined as an arched viaduct (land bridge) for ecological uses such as wildlife.  “Wildlife Overpass” tends to be most often used in North America.

The list does not include underpasses, tunnels, and similar structures for wildlife to use. In certain places, ecoducts are referred to as tunnels. Those that are actually ecoducts are included on this list. In addition, those green bridges in England that are primarily meant for farm animal movement have not been included.

Wildlife overpasses/ecoducts can now be found on every continent except Antarctica, with them now in existence in nearly 40 nations that are listed below. Some surprising nations where no ecoducts have been identified thus far include Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, and Taiwan. As this is a working list, any additions, corrections, or suggestions are most appreciated.

Argentina

• Highway 101 Ecoduct (2019)

Australia

• New South Wales

• A1/Pacific Highway NE Fauna Overpasses (pre-2006): two – Yelgun and Woodburn
• Wakehurst Parkway Wire Canopy Bridges: two (2000 and 2005) – Sydney
• Lady Game Drive Canopy Bridges : two – Lindfield and Sydney
• Branxton Fauna Rope Bridge – Branxton
• Buladelah Fauna Rope Bridge – Buladelah
• Devil’s Pulpit Fauna Rope Bridge –
• Glenugie Fauna Rope Bridge – Glenugie
• Fauna Rope Bridges: three – Lismore
• A1/Pacific Highway NE Rope Canopy Bridges: five – Karuah Bypass

• Queensland

• Fauna Rope Overpass (1995) – near Cairns
• Caloundra Fauna Rope Bridge – Caloundra
• Cardwell Highway Fauna Rope Bridge – Cardwell
• Steve Irwin Way Fauna Rope Bridge – Beerwah
• Wiggins Island Fauna Rope Bridge –
• Compton Road Wildlife Overpass (pre-2008) – Kuraby, Metro Brisbane
• Compton Road Fauna Rope Bridges: three – Metro Brisbane
• Danbulla State Forest Fauna Rope Bridge (2006)
• Old Palmerston Highway (2005):three – Wooroonooran National Park between Millaa Millaa and Ravenshoe
• Collins Road Fauna Rope Bridges (2018): two – Everton Hills, Metro Brisbane
• Walkers Road Fauna Rope Bridge (2018) – Morayfield, Metro Brisbane
• Oakley Flat Road Faune Rope Bridges (2018): two – Narangba, Metro Brisbane
• Endeavour Boulevard Fauna Rope Bridge (2018) – North Lakes, Metro Brisbane
• Discovery Drive Fauna Rope Bridge (2018) – North Lakes, Metro Brisbane
• Atherton Tablelands Rope Canopy Bridge (2018) – Atherton Tablelands
• New Settlement Road Fauna Fauna Rope Bridge (2019) – Burpengary, Metro Brisbane
• Old North Road Fauna Rope Bridge (2019) – Warner, Metro Brisbane
• Kremzow Road Fauna Rope Bridge (2019) – Warner, Metro Brisbane
• Bunya Road Fauna Rope Bridge (2020) – Arana Hills, Metro Brisbane
• Jinker Track Fauna Rope Bridges (2020): six – Albany Creek, Metro Brisbane
• Purnicestone Road Fauna Rope Bridge (2020): two – Caboolture, Metro Brisbane
• First Avenue Fauna Rope Bridges (2021): two – Woorim, Metro Brisbane
• Kremzow Road Fauna Rope Bridge (2012) – Cashmere, Metro Brisbane
• Lilley Road Fauna Rope Bridge (2021) – Cashmere, Metro Brisbane
• O’Brien Road Fauna Rope Bridge (2021) – Burpengary, Metro Brisbane
• Torrens Road Fauna Rope Bridge (2021) – Kallangur, Metro Brisbane
• Burpengary Road Fauna Rope Bridge (2022) – Burpengary, Metro Brisbane
• Gympie Road Fauna Rope Bridge (2022) – Lawnton, Metro Brisbane

• Victoria

• Hume Freeway Rope Canopy Bridges: two (2007) – Violet Town and Longwood
• Hume Freeway Rope Canopy Bridges: numerous – Albury to Tarcutta
• Calder Freeway Rope Canopy Bridges: two – Kyneton to Faraday
• Goulburn Valley Freeway Rope Canopy Bridges

• Western Australia

• NorthLink/Tonkin Road Fauna Bridge (2019) – Ellenbrook, Metro Perth
• Two (2) more ecoducts planned as part of the NorthLink

Other(s)

• Crab Bridge (2015) – Christmas Island National Park
• Approximately 15 other land bridges and five other canopy bridges

Austria

• Innkreis Autobahn Grünbrücke (2003) – Wels
• A1 Autobahn Grünbrücke (2015) – Ybbs
• Aich Wildlife Crossing (2018) – Bleiburg
• Donauufer Motorway Grünbrücke – Jedlesee
• Schrick der Nord Autobahn Grünbrücke –
• Parndorfer Platte over the Ost Autobahn Grünbrücke –
• OBB Grünbrücke – Koralmbahn
• St. Valentin Grünbrücke –
• St. Georgen am Ybbsfelde Grünbrücke –
• Approximately 15 more planned

Belgium

• De Warande Ecoduct (2004) – Oud-Heverlee
• Kikbeek Ecoduct (2004) – Opgrimble
• De Munt Ecoduct (2011) – Loenhout
• Kempengrens Ecoduct (2014) – Postel
• Peerdsbos Ecoduct – Brasschaat/Schoten
• Ecoduct Nationaal Park Hoge Kempen – Limburg
• Ecoduct Groenendaal (2018) – Sonian Forest/Brussels
• De Grote Konijnenpijp (2020) – Oud-Heverlee
• Ecoduct de Warande – Bierbeek
• N71/Waaltjesbos Ecoduct in Lommel (2024) = 197 feet wide – added 1/18/26
• E-313 Ecoduct in Ranst (2024) – added 1/18/26
• N75/Dilserbos Ecoduct (2025) = 197 feet wide – added 1/18/26

Brazil

• Monkey Rope Bridge – Bahia
• Poco de Dantas Viaduto Vegetado (2020) – Silva Jardim

Canada

• Trans-Canada Highway Overpasses: six (two in 1997, two in 2009, and two in 2012) – Banff National Park, Alberta (Redearth and Wolverine Overpasses, plus 4 others)
• Highway 69 Wildlife Overpass (2012) – Burwash, Ontario
• Highway 97C Wildlife Overpass (pre-2015) – British Columbia
• Trans-Canada Highway Wildlife Overpass (2018) – Yoho National Park, British Columbia
• Hwy 93/95 near Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia (2025) – added 1/17/26
• Trans-Canada Highway/Peter Lougheed Wildlife Overpass near Bow Valley Gap, Alberta = 197 feet wide (2025) – added 1/17/26

China

• Beijing Expressway Green Bridge – Beijing Olympic Forest Park
• National Highway 216 WildlifeOverpass (2019) – Xinjiang Uygur region

Costa Rica

• Two (2) sloth and a number of monkey rope crossing bridges

Croatia

• Dedin/Zagreb – Rijeka Motorway Ecoduct (pre-2009) – Delnice
• Ten (10) Ecoducts on the Zagreb-Dubrovnik Motorway

Czechia

• Hrabuvka Wildlife Crossing and Overpass (D1 Motorway) (2008) – Hrabuvka
• Suchdol and Odrou Wildlife Crossing (D1 Motorway) (2008) – Suchdol nad Odrou
• Ecoduct Lipnik – between Oloumuc and Ostrava
• D6 Motorway Ecoduct – Karlove Vary/Jenisovice
• Seven (7) ecoducts on the Prague Ring Road

Denmark

• Odense-Svenborg Motorway Fauna Overpass – Funen
• Motorway Fauna Overpasses (1996-2001) – Jyske As

Estonia

• E263 Motorway Ecoduct (2014) – Kolu
• 24 ecoducts are planned for the Rail Baltica project in Estonia

Finland

• One existing (1) ecoduct
• National Road #40/Turku Ring Road Ecoduct (planned)

France

• A4/Eckartswiller Wildlife Bridge (1976) – Eckartswiller
• A65 (2012) – between Roquefort and Caloy
• A89 (2012) – Balbigny
• Néronde Bat Bridge (2013) – Néronde
• A64 Ecopont (2016) – Saint-Cricq-du-Gave
• A89/Ecopont Le Cause Les Grands Genevriers (2017) – Périgueux
• A71/Ecopont de la Grande Pinée (post 2017) – Chambéon
• A62Ecopont (post 2017) – Saint Porquier
• A89 Ecoduct (post 2017) – Saint-Priest-de-Gimel
• A89 Ecoduct (post 2017) – Soudeilles
• Les Adrets-de-l’Estérel Wildlife Crossing (2017) – Les Adrets-de-l’Estérel
• Ecopont en Dordogne (2018)
• A40/Songy Ecopont (2018) – Near Geneva
• A10/Ecopont de la forêt de la Lande –
• Ecopont de Varrennes –
• A61/Ecopont – Narbonne-La pose
• A57 Ecopont –
• Urcel Wildlife Overpass – Urcel
• Approximately 110 more Ecoponts/Écoduc

Germany

• Würtembergle Bridge (1989) – Radolfzell am Bodensee
• Grünbrücke Hohenlinden (1993) – Überlingen
• Klein-Flöthe Wildlife Overpass (1994) – Flöthe
• Barnekow Wildlife Overpass (1996) – Barnekow
• Grünbrücke/A-72 (2003)
• Wilmshagen Wildlife Crossing (2004) – Sundhagen
• Hainholz Grünbrücke (2007) – Pronstorf
• Bundesautobahn 7 Grünbrücke Nietheim (2011) – Heidenheim an der Brenz
• Federal Highway 13 Wildlife Crossing (2011) – Teupitz
• Wiesenhagen Wildlife Crossing (2012) – Trebbin
• Beelitz Wildlife Crossing (2018) – Beelitz
• Postweg Overpass (2018) – Halle/Westfalen
• Burkvitz Forest Wildlife Crossing (2019) – Samtens
• Grünbrücke Aichelberg – Aichelberg
• Heinzenberg Wildlife Crossing – Nettersheim
• Kanalbrücke über die Stever – Olfen
• Federal Highway 1 Grünbrücke – Blankenheim
• Federal Highway 2 Grünbrücke – Burg
• Bundesautobahn 3 Grünbrücke – near Duisburg
• Federal Highway 4 Grünbrücke – near Elsdorf
• Federal Highway 6 Grünbrücke – near Wattenheim
• Federal Highway 7 Grünbrücke – near Bad Bramstedt
• Federal Highway 7 Grünbrücke – Bockenem
• Federal Highway 7 Grünbrücke – near Brokenlande
• Federal Highway 7 Grünbrücke – Oberthulba
• Federal Highway 7 Grünbrücke – near Hünfeld
• Federal Highway 8 Grünbrücke- near Karlsbad, Aichelberg, Imberg, Zusmarshausen and Adelsried
• Federal Highway 9 Grünbrücke – near Niemegk
• Federal Highway 11 Grünbrücke – Joachimsthal
• Federal Highway 12 Grünbrücke – Briesen
• Federal Highway 13 Grünbrücke – Großräschen, this wild bridge is a rebuilt road bridge
• Federal Highway 14 Bat Bridge: five – Jesendorf, Schwerin, Groß Warnow, Ludwigslust and Colbitz
• Federal Highway 17: three – Tunnel Altfranken (Dresden), Landschaftstunnel Meuschaer Höhe (Heidenau) and Landschaftstunnel Harthe (Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel)
• Federal Highway 19 Grünbrücke – Wredenhagen
• Federal Highway 20 near Mönkhagen, Lüdersdorf, Bobitz, Wismar, Neukloster, Bad Doberan, Rostock, Sanitz, Neubrandenburg, Friedland, Pasewalk and Prenzlau
• Federal Highway 21 Grünbrücke: two – Wankendorf and Wahlstedt
• Federal Highway 24 Grünbrücke – at Gudow
• Federal Highway 31 Grünbrücke – at Schermbeck
• Federal Highway 33 Grünbrücke: two plus Halle above – Bad Rothenfelde and Bielefeld
• Federal Highway 36 Grünbrücke – at Schladen
• Federal Highway 36 Grünbrücke: two – near Westerhausen and Hoym
• Federal Highway 39 Grünbrücke: three – at Scheppau, Cremlingen and Sickte
• Federal Highway 52 Grünbrücke – at Elmpt
• Federal Highway 60 Grünbrücke – at Wittlich
• Federal Highway 61 Grünbrücke – near Kerpen
• Federal Highway 71 Grünbrücke: three – near Ilmenau, Meiningen und Münnerstadt
• Federal Highway 93 Grünbrücke – between Rehau and Schönwald
• Federal Highway 96 Grünbrücke: three – between Leutkirch and Wangen, and near Gebrazhofen und Kißlegg
• Federal Highway 98 Grünbrücke – near Kalkhofen
• Federal Highway 99 Grünbrücke – at Lake Feringase at Unterföhring near Munich
• Federal Highway 111 Grünbrücke – Schulzendorfer Straße (Berlin)
• Federal Highway 861 Grünbrücke – Rheinfelden
• Bundesstraße 2 Grünbrücke – Stettenhofen
• Bundesstraße 10 Grünbrücke – Ruppertsweiler
• Bundesstraße 15 Grünbrücke (2019) – Wölflkofen
• Bundesstraße 19 Grünbrücke – near Waltenhofen
• Bundesstraße 27 Grünbrücke – Waake-West
• Bundesstraße 28a Grünbrücke – near Schopfloch
• Bundesstraße 29 Grünbrücke: two – both near Schorndorf
• Bundesstraße 31 Grünbrücke – near Ludwigshafen
• Bundesstraße 33 Grünbrücke – near Radolfzell
• Bundesstraße 38 Grünbrücke – near Birkenau
• Bundesstraße 62 Grünbrücke – near Biedenkopf
• Bundesstraße 64 Grünbrücke – near Altenbeken
• Bundesstraße 96 Grünbrücke – near Miltzow
• Bundesstraße 101 Grünbrücke – near Luckenwalde
• Bundesstraße 178n Grünbrücke – near Obercunnersdorf
• Bundesstraße 207 Grünbrücke – near Lübeck
• Bundesstraße 295 Grünbrücke – Leonberg
• Bundesstraße 464 Grünbrücke – near Böblingen
• Landesstraße 361 Grünbrücke – near Bergheim
• Autobahn 5 Grünbrücke – Freiburg

Greece

• E90/Egnatia Motorway Green Bridge

India

• Five (5) ecoducts planned on planned Mumbai-Delhi Motorway to maintain linkages between the Ranthambore and Mukundra (Darrah) wildlife sanctuaries

Ireland

• M17 Motorway Ecoduct (2017) – Coole Park Nature Reserve/Galway

Israel

• Highway 1 Eco-Bridge – between Tel Aviv and Jérusalem

Kenya

• Moi North Lake Road Wildlife Overpass (2021) – Eburu Forest

Latvia

• Four (4) Ecoducts proposed as part of the Rail Baltica project

Luxembourg

• Roost Wildlife Crossing (2001) – Mersch
• Rengelbur Wildlife Crossing (2015) – Steinsel
• A3 Bettembourg Ecoduct (2021) = 167 feet wide x 236 feet long – added 1/18/26

Malaysia

• N9 Overpass Crossing – Seremban
• N9 Overpass Crossing – Port Dickson

Netherlands

• Woeste Hoeve Wildlife Crossing (1988) – Apeldoorn
• A50/Terlet Wildlife Crossing (1988) – Arnhem
• Ecoduct Boerskotten (1992) – Boerskotten
• Ecoduct Harm van de Veen: two (1999) – Veluwe National Park
• Ecoduct The Borkeld (2003) – De Borkeld Nature Reserve
• Natuurbrug Het Groene Woud (2003) –
• Ecoduct Leusderheide (2005) – Leusderheide
• Crailo Sand Quarry Nature Bridge (2006) – Hilversum
• Ecoduct Waterloo (2007) – Waterloo
• Ecoduct Beukbergen (2009) – Beukbergen
• Ecoduct Beesdsche Veld (2010) – Beesdsche Veld
• Hoog Buurlo Wildlife Crossing (2011) – Apeldoorn
• Ecoduct Hulshorst (2011) – Hulshorst
• Ecoduct Jac. P. Thijsse (2011) –
• Ecoduct Tolhuis (2011) – Tolhuis
• Ecoduct Wolfhezerheide (2011) – Wolfheserheide
• Ecoduct Mollebos (2012) – Mollebos
• Ecoduct Rumelaar (2012) – Rumelaar
• Ecoduct Huis ter Heide (2012) – Huis ter Heide
• Ecoduct Oud Reemst (2012) – Oud Reemst
• Squirrel Bridge (2012) – The Hague
• Ecoduct Ulingsheide (2012) – Wambach
• Ecoducten Bunderbosch/Kalverbosch: two (2013) – Bunderbosch and Kalverbosch
• N350/Ecoduct De Grimberg (2013) – De Grimberg
• Ecoduct Dwingelderveld (2013) – Dwingelderveld
• Ecoduct Twilhaar (2013) – Twilhaar
• Lutrapassage/Natrixpassage: two (2013)
• Natuurbrug Zandpoort (2013) – Zandpoort
• Ecocorridor Zwaluwenberg (2013) – Zwaluwenberg
• Ecoduct Zwaluwenberg (2013) – Zwaluwenberg
• Ecoduct Groote Heide (2014) – Groot Heide
• Ecoduct Herperduin (2014) – Herpeduin
• Ecoduct Kempengrens (2014) – Kempengrens
• Ecoduct Leenderbos (2014) – Leenderbos
• Ecoduct Maashorst (2014) – Maashorst
• Natuurbrugs Weerterbergen: two (2014) – Weerterbergen
• Ecoduct Boele Staal (2015) – Boele Staal
• Eco-aquaduct Zweth (2015) – Zweth
• Laarderhoogt Wildlife Crossings: two (2015) – Laren
• Natuurbrug Zeepoort (2016) – Zeepoort = 164 feet wide and 2,625 feet long
• Burgemeester Letschertbrug – Tilburg
• Ecoduct Autena – Autena
• Railway Ecoduct Duinport – Duinport
• Ecoduct Overjissel – Overjissel (see photo below)
• Ecoduct Slabroek – Slabroek
• Ecoduct Stiggeltie – Stiggeltie
• Ecoduct Suthwalda – Suthwalda
• Ecoduct Treeker Wissel – Treeker Wissel
• Ecombiduct Op de Kievit –
• Ecopassage Middachten – Middachten
• A1 Ecoduct in Rijessen (2004) – added 1/18/26

New Zealand

• Travis Wetland Wildlife Bridge (2018) – Christchurch (mixed foot and wildlife bridge)

Poland

• Autostrada A-1 Ecoduct – Lodz-Czestochowa section
• Autostrada A-4 Ecoduct: five (2001) – Krakow-Tarnow and Przylesie-Prady sections
• E-65 Ecoduct – 
• Autostrada A-2 Ecoducts: two – Dabie – Emilia and Ciosny sections
• Autostrada A-3 Ecoducts: two – Wolinski National Park
• National Road #5 Ecoduct – Rosnowek section
• National Road #11 Ecoduct – Poznan – Kurnic section
• S-5 Ring Road Ecoduct – Szubina 
• S-5 Expressway Ecoduct – Bydgoszcz-Strystek-Biale-Blota section
• S-8 Expressway Ecoduct – Radzymin Wyszkow, Wyszkow-Skuszew, and Wroclaw-Lodz section
• S-69 Expressway Ecoduct – Bielsko Biala-Zywiec-Zwardon section
• Autostrada A-4 Ecoducts – five additional Ecoducts in the Zgorzelec-Krzyżowa section

Romania

• One (1) ecoduct

Singapore

• Bukit Timah Expressway Eco-Link (2013) – Singapore, Singapore
• Mandai Wildlife Bridge (2019) – Singapore, Singapore

Slovakia

• Hôrka Wildlife Crossing – Hôrka
• Mengusovce Ecoduct –
• D2 Ecoduct (2016) – Moravský Svätý Ján
• National Raod 11 Ecoduct (proposed) – Svrcinovec

Slovenia

• A5/Brengova Ecoduct (2008) – Brengova
• Gančani Ecoduct (2008) – Murska Sobota
• A5/Lenart Ecoduct (2008) – Lenart
• A5/Mostje Ecoduct (2008) – Mostje
• Urbarialni Gozd Ecoduct (2008)

South Korea

• Fifty-five (55) ecoducts

Spain

• Nineteen (19), including:
• A2 Ecoduct – Barcelona
• Ecoduct – Menorca Island
• Ecoduct – Donana National Park
• High Speed Railway Ecoduct – Hostalric

Sweden

• E6 Motorway Ecoducts: two (2018) – Sandsjöbacka Nature Reserve/Gothenburg
• E4 Motorway Renoduct (2021) – Umea

Switzerland

• Neuwilen Wildlife Crossing (1992) – Neuwilen
• Wigoltingen Wildlife Crossing (1992) – Wigoltingen
• Bern/Grauholz Wildlife Crossing (1995) – Bern
• Brienzwiler Wildlife Crossing (1995) – Brienzwiler
• Kruezenlingen Wildlife Crossing (1999) – Kruzenlingen
• Rüthi Wildlife Crossing (1999) – Rüthi
• Feusisberg Wildlife Crossing (2000) – Feusisberg
• Chaumes Wildlife Crossing (2001) – Chaumes
• Giswil Wildlife Crossing (2001) – Giswil
• Replanes Wildlife Crossing (2001) – Replanes
• Stock Wildlife Crossing (2001) – Biel
• Isenberg Ecoduct/Tunnel (2009) – Zurich
• Le Maira Wildlife Crossing (2011) – Basse-Allaine
• Les Combes Wildlife Crossing (2014) – Courtedoux
• Brienzwiler Wildlife Crossing – Brienzwiler
• Font Wildlife Crossing – Font
• Henggart/Loterbuck Wildlife Crossing – Henggart/Loterbuck
• Henggart/Rütibuck Wildlife Crossing – Henggart/Rütibuck

Thailand

• Suwinthawong Road 304 Wildlife Overpass (2019) – Khao Yai and Thap Lan National Parks

Turkiye

• Ankara – Adana Highway Ecoduct (pre-2011) –
• Northern Marmara Highway Ecoduct (2016) – Istanbul

United Kingdom

• Scotney Castle Green Bridge (2006) – Kent, England
• Aberdeen Periphery Road Ecoduct #1 – Kingcausie, Scotland
• Aberdeen Periphery Road Ecoduct #2 – Kirkhill, Scotland
• A556 near Chester, England – added 1/18/26
• M25 Junction near Wisley, England – added 1/18/26
• High Speed Rail 2/Turweston Green Bridge (2025) near Brackley, England = 325 feet wide – added 1/18/26
• A30/Marazanvose Green Bridge (2025) in Cornwall, England = 41 feet wide/161 feet long – added 1/18/26
• A417 Missing Link near Gloucester, England (2027) = 121 feet wide – added 1/18/26

United States

• Nutty Narrows Squirrel Bridge (1963) – Longview, Washington
• I-15 Wildlife Overpass (1975) – Beaver, Utah
• I-78 Watchung Wildlife Crossings: two (1970s) – Watchung Wildlife Reservation, New Jersey
• U.S. 93 Wildlife Crossing Overpass (2010)- Wells, Nevada
• US 93 Wildlife Overpasses: three (2010) – north of Kingman, Arizona
• US 93 Wildlife Overpass “Animal Bridge” (2010) – Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana
• Bruce Camp Memorial Squirrel Bridge (2011) – Longview, Washington
• John R. Dick Squirrel Bridge (2012) – Longview, Washington
• I-70 Wildlife Crossing (2012) – East Vail Pass, Colorado
• US 191/Trappers Point Overpass (2012) – Pinedale, Wyoming
• OBEC “Woodie” Squirrel Bridge (2013) – Longview, Washington
• I-80/Silver Zone Wildlife Overpass (2013) = 2 x 65 feet long – West Wendover, Nevada
• Safety Awareness Squirrel Bridge (2015) – Longview, Washington
• Lewis & Clark replica Squirrel Bridge (post 2015) – Longview, Washington
• Fremont replica Squirrel Bridge (post 2015) – Longview, Washington
• CO-9 Wildlife Overpasses: two – North and South (2016) – Kremmling, Colorado
• Oracle Road Wildlife Bridge (2016) – Tucson, Arizona
• I-11 Wildlife Overpass (2018) – Boulder City, Nevada
• I-80/Parleys Canyon Overpass (2019) – Park City, Utah
• I-90 Wildlife Bridge near Snoqualmie Pass, Washington – added 1/17/26
• Robert L.B. Tobin Land Bridge (2020) – San Antonio, Texas
• US 101/Liberty Canyon Wildlife Overpass (2026) = 210 feet long – Los Angeles, California – *Single 210-foot span – world’s largest wildlife overpass when completed
• US 160 Wildlife Overpass (2021)- Chimney Rock National Monument, Colorado
• ID-21/Cervidae Peak Wildlife Overpass (2024) – Idaho
• US 93/Animal’s Way Overpass near Evaro, Montana = 197 feet wide – added 1/17/26
• I-8 in Ko Pah Gorge (?) California – added 3/17/24
• I-90 near Osborn, Idaho (2025) = 150 feet wide – added 1/17/26
• I-25 in Larkspur, Colorado (2025) = 200 feet wide x 209 feet long – added 1/17/26 – see below*

*”The overpass is the single largest bridge structure for wildlife in North America and one of the largest in the world at 200 feet wide and 209 feet long covering 41,800 square feet, nearly an acre.” – Source: governors office.colorado.gov

• I-17/Willard Springs Overpass south of Flagstaff, Arizona (2026) – added 1/17/26
• WA-20/Red Cabin Creek Overpass, near Sedro-Wooley, Washington (2028) – added 1/17/26
• US 101 at Rocks Ranch/Liberty Canyon (2030+/-) – California – added 3/17/24
• I-5 at Siskiyou Summit (proposed) – Oregon – added 3/17/24
• US 550 near Cuba, New Mexico (proposed) – added 1/17/26
• US 93/People’s Way Overpass near Ninepipe NWMA (proposed) – added 1/17/26

Those seen by post author in the USA and Canada are shown in italics.

SOURCES:

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• NECR181_edition_1.pdf
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• https://greennews.ie/44587-2/
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• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-020-01412-y
• https://www.dailysabah.com/istanbul/2016/08/20/turkeys-first-highway-wildlife-crossing-nears-completion
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• https://samanthawheelerblog.com/tag/research-2/
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• https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001360925/animal-bridge-to-reduce-accidents-on-busy-road
• https://slothconservation.com/sloth-crossing-bridges/
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• https://www.wegenwiki.nl/Ecoduct
• https://twitter.com/hashtag/ecoduct?src=hashtag_click
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• https://www.rrrc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/493-JCU-Goosem-M-et-al-2008-Overpass-evaluation-of-effectiveness.pdf
• https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2019/06/27/chinas-first-wildlife-overpass-to-open
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• Database A B C D E F G H I J K L M N 1 Doc Ref Source Date …http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk
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#1 #11 #2 #40 #5 #animalBridges #animals #bridges #ecoBridges #ecoLinks #ecoducts #ecopont #ecosystems #faunaBridges #Grünbrücke #greenBridges #landBridges #nature #natureBridges #overcrossings #ropeBridges #wildlife #wildlifeOverpasses

I miss cross country skiing already 🙂 Last day of the Cypress Nordic 2024-2025 Season. I was tired and happy on my skate skis. More tired than usual because i was carrying 2kg of water and coffee cups 🙂 for our summit picnic 🙂 ! I don't ski with a backpack normally.

• Strava: Cypress Nummer vierzig des 2024-25 Langlaufsaisons Bluebird #FreeTheHeelFreeTheMind #XcSkiing #Skate 🙂
• Flickr photos and video: 2025-04-13 Cypress XC Ski #40 Last day of the season

#40 #FreeTheHeelFreeTheMind #Skate #XcSkiing

Lizzard – Mesh Review

By Dolphin Whisperer

Back when 2020 was turning the page to hopefully a better year, I caught a podcast of a little-spread act, Lizzard, and their freshly forthcoming album Eroded. They chatted with a nervous excitement about their fairly organic and elegant approach to producing a lush and layered form of prog-minded sounds influenced by memories of 90s radio rock. Memory can be fickle. I have plenty of memories of alternative radio from that time and the early 00s, most not particularly fond. If you wander through a neighborhood grocery store you can still relive these recordings, a gentle drop of an infectious yet placid Train chorus or forlorn, funky croon of Incubus or Radiohead. And though the predictable structure of this music—that is Mesh or some of its distant inspirations—may not seem readily appealing, the precise twists of tone or delicate experimentations that these aged tunes possess hold a certain charm that can often be missing in the resonance of today’s rock music scene.

That’s not to say that Lizzard shares nothing in common with the sounds of modern progressive acts. The material off prior releases 2014’s Majestic or 2018’s Shift reveal the same kind of Tool-ish syncopations and gazey, post-leaning Deftones grooves that smatter about contemporaries like Wheel or Hippotraktor. But Lizzard arrives loaded instead with warm, vibrant guitar tones; well-framed, shifting rhythms; and crushing, sing-song bass rattling that comes together against hypnotizing and emotive refrains. Despite pushing an audible gloom, guitarist and vocalist Mathieu Ricou doesn’t possess a powerhouse sadboi voice,1 falling into the Jonas Renkse (Katatonia) school of growth by iterative force, pushing the bounds of a crinkling pathos against glistening and glowing melodies (“Home Seek,” “Minim,” “The Beholder”). Mesh wears in plain sight the cracked color vocal palette of its inspirations—the fragile skip of Thom Yorke (Radiohead), the fluttering falsetto of Ian Kenny (Karnivool, Birds of Tokyo). Though, importantly, with that same lyrical atmosphere Lizzard rides the waves of their reverberating melancholy to brighter pastures with practiced aplomb (“Elevate,” “Home Seek,” “The Beholder”).

The captivating strength of Lizzard’s lead drives gives Mesh the power to hook no matter the manner of attack. Whether amp-blowing riff (“Unity”), nasally bass warble (“New Page,” “Home Seek”), or united rocking thrust (“Black Sheep”), each successive passage builds in subtle ways on the last. It’s simple—Lizzard wears the verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus tried and trusted pattern well. This adherence to The Beatles method of elegant accentuations within the box of the AABA allows Ricou to step back and use looped or steady patterns to let Will Knox’s wide bass slips and slides be a voice that flitters about in near harmony to Ricou’s poetic recitals (“New Page,” “Mad Hatters”). And elsewhere, Knox and drummer Katy Elwell maintain a thundering pulse to allow Ricou’s tension-loaded scale explorations evolve into post-rock-inspired bright chord crescendos, with “The Unseen” even featuring a gaze-drenched-yet-snappy solo.

The consistency that runs through Mesh allows each song’s peaks and flairs to weave the experience into a cohesive whole. At first blush, it’s easy to parse Mesh as a collection of great songs. But in the presence of its individually structure nature, the cyclical flow of bursting intro to playful melodies to sweeping codas spills over into the atmosphere between each number. Hard-hitting, riff-loaded jams have full-brake resolutions (“Unity,” “Black Sheep,” “The Unseen”). Other songs that steer with crystalline arpeggio hooks and cymbal-splashed ceilings segue with a shimmered reverb harmonic that maintains the somber mood. And the closing trio functions as one extended thought, with “The Beholder” intentionally starting with hard-panned bass and guitar to mimic the division of it all until the first chorus unites the duo.

Predicting that which will deeply resonate within our listening hearts stands as an effort futile, misguided by the things we want rather than need. I never could have predicted that 2021 would deliver me Lizzard’s Eroded, a modern classic in my head canon. And though Lizzard’s back catalog remains loaded with smart tune after smart tune, Mesh still had no guarantee of landing as a success. Mesh is not the definitive and downcast cry that drilled Eroded deep into my listening heart. But it is steady, lush, and hopeful. Mesh is not an album that revels in virtuosic spectacle or deeply layered narrative. But it is so finely woven in execution—exacting and exuberant—that Mesh too has embedded itself as necessary progressive listening.

Rating: 4.0/5.0
DR: 72 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Pelagic Records | Bandcamp
Websites: lizzardband.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/lizzardmusic
Releases Worldwide: September 27th, 2024

#40 #AlternativeRock #ArtRock #BirdsOfTokyo #Deftones #Eroded #FrenchMetal #Hippotraktor #Incubus #Karnivool #Katatonia #Lizzard #Mesh #PelagicRecords #PostRock #PostMetal #ProgressiveRock #Radiohead #Review #Reviews #Sep24 #TheBeatles #Train #Wheel

Dawn Treader – Bloom & Decay Review

By Itchymenace

I love black metal—especially when it’s drenched in an atmosphere that soars between heroic highs and guttural lows. But, finding quality records with dynamic songs that resonate with me on an emotional level can be harder than finding a needle in a Norwegian blizzard. Jorn knows I’ve dipped my scabbed hands into the sump numerous times only to pull out some third or fourth-generation Emperor copy put together by a couple of kids who are in 300 other bands that I’ve also never heard of. Patiently, I’ve waited for a band that has the hood-covered chops to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the great atmo-black bands I adore like Agalloch, Alcest, Panopticon and, dare I say, Deafheaven.1 So, it was as if Odin himself answered my prayers when Dawn Treader steered its mighty Saxon hull into my harbor with an album that’s as fierce, beautiful, stirring, and memorable as anything I’ve heard in the past several years. What makes this album such a gem? Direct your black gaze forward.

Dawn Treader is a “solo, anti-fascist black metal project” from London native, Ross Connell. Bloom & Decay is the project’s second release and the first to include vocals from Mr. Connell, who proves himself a formidable and impassioned vocalist. He balances urgency and angst with an emotional nuance that elevates the songs above most of his contemporaries. His opening shriek on “Idolator” is blood-curdling in the best sense, but he channels that rage into the verse with a near-melodic delivery that will put your heart in your throat. On his previous release, 2021’s The Burial of the Dead, any vocalizations came in the form of soundbites from poems, namely T.S. Elliot’s “Wasteland.” Bloom & Decay still benefits from plenty of carefully curated samples, but the vocals add a much-welcome dimension to the landscape.

The majority of Bloom & Decay is instrumental, but you hardly notice because the music has such a storytelling quality to it. To paraphrase the release notes, it takes you through the “cycles of life and death, grief and glory, hope and melancholy.” And while most black metal bands promise some form of this, Dawn Treader delivers in spades. The opening minutes of “Sunchaser” offer a prelude of everything to come with delicate melodies that intensify into heroic tremolos that feel victorious one moment and mournful the next. The track segues perfectly into “Idolator,” which somehow combines compelling black metal riffs with a crushing, metalcore-style breakdown and a finger-tapping guitar solo. It works, check it out! Listening to Bloom & Decay, you can’t help but feel that it is building up to something. That something is the title track and one of the most uplifting and inspiring songs I’ve ever heard. It’s a monster album closer that soars through some of the best, most melodic blackened guitar work you’ll hear. But, the coup de grace is the masterfully placed sample of Charles Bukowski’s “The Laughing Heart” as read by Tom Waits. The poem, which emphasizes how life’s soul-crushing lows can be offset by glimmering moments of light, perfectly delivers an emotional climax that makes you want to wipe your brow, catch your breath, flip the record and start over.

A big part of me wanted to give this record a 5.0 but the objective voice inside my head (and the thought of Steel’s boot on my neck) persuaded me to step back and reconsider. As good as the good stuff is, some areas could be trimmed. Curiously, the first single “Sky Burial,” resonates with me the least. “Iron Price,” with its heavily political and meandering “fuck you” speech may turn off some listeners, but the ferocity of the second half delivers serious chills reminiscent of Panopticon. While I love “The Oxbow Incident,” the Henry Fonda speech included before the final track delays rather than builds my excitement. Still, at 53 minutes, Bloom & Decay is right in the pocket for this sort of epic black metal.

Bloom & Decay not only contains amazing songs that celebrate the highs and lows of the human experience, but it also sounds great. It has a bright and punchy production that submerges you just beneath every cascading note and crashing tidal wave blast. For fans of black metal and certainly post-black metal, black gaze and atmo black (and whatever other hip genre you want to add) Dawn Treader has released a must-have record. Prepare to set sail for greatness!

Rating: 4.0/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: Lossless (PCM)
Label: liminaldreadproductions.com
Website: dawntreaderuk.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: August 23rd, 2024

#40 #AtmophericBlackMetal #Aug24 #BlackMetal #Blackgaze #BloomDecay #DawnTreader #EnglishMetal #Review #Reviews #UKMetal

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Jarhead Fertilizer – Carceral Warfare Review

By Dolphin Whisperer

There’s disgusting death metal, there’s brutal death metal, then there’s death metal that walks into a room and makes you wonder if anyone else in that room has a restraining order against it. Autopsy may have pioneered this brand of whiplash, burner phone grooves against parole-violating subject matter, but Jarhead Fertilizer—featuring mostly current or former members of grinders Full of Hell—has taken the campy idea of that putrid stance and added to it a real-world violence. What do you expect when their namesake (and logo style) comes from Dystopia and the track “Jarhead Fertilizer,” a crusty anthem that holds a decidedly anti-military stance. Jarhead’s weapons are different though, imbuing their partner act’s trudging and noisy powerviolence tendencies with heavier-weight, death-addled grooves that set the stage not for cartoon skeletons or zombies but for a rusty-edged ambush in a skeezy back alley. A circle pit would be too comfortable.

Performance is the heart of heavy metal, and death metal is no different. But sometimes that hard-to-grasp heft that defines the brutality of extreme escapades can take a moment to latch. That level of base aggression and simple appearance blew a little by me the first couple times I heard 2021’s Product of My Environment. But over time, hooked by morbid curiosity to its intensity, the incendiary sample choices,1 feverish dips into stone-fisted breakdowns, and reckless drum expression that thunders as both murderous skanks and reluctantly controlled freeform fills, Jarhead won my heart over. Or, rather, they ripped it out, threw it down, and stomped it until it got the message. Acts in similar hardcore/slam space like Snuffed on Sight or Bodybox possess this same skill of maneuvering through remedial rhythms with an elevated stumble, but Jarhead wears it with a harrowing death-aligned roar.

The hammering yet natural flow throughout Carceral Warfare owes its shiv-like precision to smartly timed bursts of heaving death metal. Deep and vibrating animalistic snarls tee-up riffs the way you might hear in a prime Autopsy cut but with a different kind of mania—the voices of beings who grew up in the world that an act like that spat at (“Cell Warrior,” “Mark of the Beast,” “Hysteria”). Despite the viciousness and anger that a straining throat can manifest, Jarhead allows their mangled manifests to run through flush filters and other hazy modulations to denounce the humanity that the world around them tries to present (“Blood of the Lamb,” “Parasitic Pathology”). The landscape built by these primal chugs and carnal hisses oppresses.

A diverse array of media references and sound inclusions offer a unique atmosphere with layers of enjoyment. Opening Carceral Warfare with beats fit for an El-P rager and recalling that grimy, urban malaise in “Torture Cage” infuse an industrial hip-hop edge that’s as threatening as it is unconventional. Continuing to capture the tension of a downcast life, Jarhead pulls samples that highlight the inhumanity of war (“Wrath of Judas”) and call out the many vices (“Carceral Warfare”) of human behavior, even calling upon a tripped-out reading of Revelation 14:9-11 (“Parasitic Pathology”). None of these clips read straight, though, each receiving pitch-shifting, wonky panning, fizzled fades—anything to help these snippets devolve into the grumbling bass and jagged low-end runs that await them.

No matter how far away Carceral Warfare steps away from the traditional oompa bounce and piercing, feral leads of deathgrind, a thuggish tremolo and riff lurk in the shadows. And no matter how far into a societally disgusted message that Jarhead Fertilizer steps, a catastrophic tom barrage and demonic gurgle conjure a crooked-lipped, missing-tooth visage of nihilism. I haven’t a footing for any lyrics across this beatdown—this worldview rests in action not speech. It’s not elevated. It’s diverse enough for its sub-30-minute run. Carceral Warfare’s only question is whether you accept Jarhead Fertilizer in all their scummy glory. And if you don’t? Well, you better learn to sleep with one eye open.

Rating: 4.0/5.0
DR: N/A | Format Reviewed: Stream
Label: Closed Casket Activities | Bandcamp
Website: jarheadfertilizeroc.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: December 8th, 2023

#2023 #40 #AmericanMetal #Autopsy #Bodybox #CarceralWarfare #ClosedCasketActivities #DeathMetal #Deathgrind #Dec23 #Dystopia #ElP #FullOfHell #Grind #Grindcore #Hardcore #JarheadFertilizer #Powerviolence #Review #Reviews #SnuffedOnSight

Phobocosm – Foreordained Review

By Steel Druhm

Montreal’s mega-heavy death metal merchants Phobocosm have a distinguished track record here at AMG, scoring high marks both times they were featured. It’s been a long time since their last appearance for 2016s Bringer of Drought, which Lord Kronos himself blessed with a righteous 3.5. He appreciated their nods to Incantation and Ulcerate and the no-nonsense way they steamroll and crush the listener with grim atmospheres and a massively heavy sound. Not the most productive of acts, nearly 7 years have creaked by since then, but we’re finally poised to receive third album, Foreordained. Have the years mellowed the monolithic caverncore style Phobocosm are known for? Not a chance! Foreordained finds them at their most murky, lurky, and nasty, as if the time off only made them more unbalanced. This is a good thing, though it may cause you some problems this December.

Listeners will be greeted by massive, doomy riffs on opener “Premonition.” Said leads feel threatening and dangerous, and you can sense that deep-dish insanity waits just around the next dark corner. The song is essentially an intro piece and a tease, laying down a dark, evil mood with a doom-centric, unhurried presentation that sets you up to be flattened by follow-up “Primal Dread,” which will knock your fucking head clean off with its unhinged blasting and ungodly riffing. This thing is a 10-minute fight to the death with an eldritch horror and all you brought was a 9-iron. That’s not nearly enough club and this thing will rip you apart with nasty nods to Immolation, Ulcerate, and Incantation. The sound creates a feeling of oppressive weight and claustrophobia, almost like a panic attack caught on tape, yet somehow the song doesn’t feel like it’s 10 minutes despite being so harsh and unrelenting. This is such a great and gruesome piece of repellant death, I want to devour it even though it will make me die of dysentery. And the goods keep on seeping under the door from there. “Everlasting Void” is an oversized dump truck full of horrific dissonance and brutal aggression with nary a nuance to be found. It swings from merciless blasting to slow, grinding paces that hurt just as much, and at no point can you untangle yourself from the ponderous web it weaves.

Track after track beats you with a grave spade and dumps you in a military-grade de-skinner and you’ll thank them for the kindness. The remorseless hostility of “Infomorph” will make you feel like you got run over by every Bolt Thrower and Just Before Dawn album, and the nearly eight-minute closer “For an Aeon” is a masterclass in tempo shifting for maximum impact, delivering a completely pulverizing and epic experience that will leave you wanting more wiolence. Speaking of wanting more, the album’s 41-minute runtime feels surprisingly brief despite the length of some of the compositions. The production is properly murky and muddy, but it doesn’t conceal what’s happening music-wise. Downsides? Sure, a minute here and there could be trimmed from the longer tracks, but the slick, intelligent way Phobocosm composes their music and packs them so full of compelling moments keeps things from feeling bloated. This is death metal made for death metal fans.

The bone paste that holds the Phobocosm show together is Samuel Dufour’s excellent riffcraft. The man uncorks a tremendous amount of slimy and abrasive leads and seasons them with dissonant phrasing to terrify the listener. Immolation and Morbid Angel often come to mind as touchstones for his playing, yet traces of Neurosis-esque bleakness still linger around the edges. His slithering riffs infect every track and I can’t get enough of his unsettling style. Jean-Sébastien Gagnon’s overpowered and abusive drumming is also a huge feature, with seemingly endless waves of blastbeats pounding you into the cavern muck. He also demonstrates surprising nuance in the slower moments with interesting fills that catch the ears. Etienne Bayard’s caustic, sub-basement death roars are the perfectly diseased cherry on top, feeling phlemy and vile while projecting great force.

Phobocosm are back and Foreordained is a mighty reminder of what they’re capable of. Massive, harrowing, and unmovable, this is the kind of scuzzy caverncore that vomits all over your carefully curated year-end lists. It’s certainly one of the best death metal releases in a year chocked full of high-quality genre entries. Thus, it is Foreordained that you’ll see this again during the impending list season.

Rating: 4.0/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/foreordained
Websites facebook.com/phobocosm
Releases Worldwide: December 8th, 2023

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