num_pages: 48
description: This powerful nonfiction picture book explores wildlife crossings around the world and how they are helping save thousands of animals every day.Around the world bridges tunnels and highways are constantly being built to help people get from one place to another. But what happens when construction spreads over under across and through animal habitats? Thankfully groups of concerned citizens scientists engineers and construction crews have come together to create wildlife crossings to help keep animals safe.From elk traversing a wildlife bridge across a Canadian interstate to titi monkeys using rope bridges over a Costa Rican road to salamanders creeping through tiny tunnels beneath a Massachusetts street young readers are certain to be delighted and inspired by these ingenious solutions that are saving the lives of countless wild animals.
language: English
title: Crossings: Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals
publisher: Beach Lane Books