Amy Propen's new book combines empathy with ecology and explains why we must offer wildlife corridors to animals.
Setting up aerial corridors in urban environments mitigates light pollution and helps migratory birds.In today's increasingly human-dominated world, nonhuman animals need all the help they can get. They deserve safe areas in which to travel about, and human-free corridors are the least we can do for them to have better lives and to enjoy the freedoms such areas offer.
Amy Propen: Ultimately, I wrote this book to help expand our understanding of our relationships with wildlife. More specifically, I wanted to describe the power of wildlife corridors to foster coexistence, to reconnect ecosystems, and to help wildlife move through areas impacted by human development. That is, we can no longer perceive national parks and protected spaces as intended only for wildlife, just as we can no longer perceive urban spaces as intended only for people.
The rest of the book includes short case chapters that show how these theories have been put into practice. I look at the wildlife crossing on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, the Monkton Wildlife Crossing in Vermont, and a railway reconstruction project in the U.K. that helped reconnect vulnerable habitats for species.
MB: Are you hopeful that as people learn more about this topic they will stop trespassing into the homes and pathways of animals that move here and there?
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