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"While we're protecting, conserving, restoring more habitat in California, we have to make sure to connect that habitat," Crowfoot said.thousands of wild animals Wildlife crossings help reconnect severed habitats and, when combined with fencing along roads, keep animals from getting slaughtered by cars.
He added that, while wildlife crossings are important, fencing along roads is the best way to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions."Dead animals don't need connectivity, they don't need wildlife crossings," he said."If we can't stop them from getting killed by traffic, then in some ways, the wildlife crossings become moot. So we need to do both things.
Shilling, who helps plan wildlife crossings in California but isn't involved with this new initiative, called the fundraising effort"interesting" but said seeking private funding for public infrastructure"allows the state to get off the hook for paying for a state problem."
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