The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing opens for the animal world on December 2, 2026, reconnecting a fragmented landscape in the Santa Monica Mountains for all wildlife and pulling the region’s cougars back from the brink of extinction. Learn more about ribbon-cutting events & opportunities➜
We’re reconnecting lands for our collective future.
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The Wildlife Crossing Fund is revolutionizing the possibilities for animal conservation, green infrastructure, and climate change resilience around the globe.
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to not only join us by celebrating the opening of this landmark crossing, but as a legacy partner in creating large-scale connectivity efforts and wildlife crossings around the globe. Millions around the worked will be watching the ribbon-cutting of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing. Join us as a supporter of this historic event—and of our launch of the most ambitious global connectivity effort to date.
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Our Purpose
The Wildlife Crossing Fund supports innovative infrastructure systems that reconnect ecosystems disrupted by roadways. Our solutions virtually eliminate wildlife-vehicle collisions for the safety and welfare of both people and wildlife, while critically increasing ecosystem health under climate change.
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WHY WILDLIFE CROSSINGS?
Road systems create significant barriers for wildlife to meet their basic needs, threatening biodiversity collapse and severely compromising ecosystems. Wildlife-vehicle collisions cost the US over $11 billion in medical costs and vehicle repairs annually and are the leading cause of death for many wildlife species. Investments in wildlife crossings at a mere fraction of that number could solve these issues in a single generation.
It actually costs society less to solve the problem of wildlife-vehicle collisions than it costs to do nothing.
– Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary of Natural Resources
POWERFUL PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
A national infrastructure package has allotted $350 million in federal funding for wildlife crossings across all 50 states, but funding remains the #1 barrier to making a national investment in wildlife crossing structures.
Currently under construction over 10 lanes of LA highway, the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing has been called a “global model of urban wildlife conservation” and was named #15 of the 50 Most Influential Projects of 2022, alongside the James Webb Telescope and Human Genome Project.
Leveraging public funds with Wallis Annenberg’s landmark conservation gift along with other philanthropic donations has made the world’s largest and most innovative wildlife crossing possible, saving the region’s mountain lions from extinction and restoring ecological health to the country’s most densely populated urban area – a conservation legacy of the century.
WE’RE MAKING HISTORY IN GLOBAL CONSERVATION.
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Wildlife crossings have bipartisan public support and immense global impact potential – a rare solution for environmental health and climate change resilience that requires society to give up very little in return.
There are projects queued up across the country and around the world, and the only thing holding them up is dollars. By matching public dollars with private dollars, dozens of projects could break ground. Tomorrow.
Future historians may look back on the second decade or so of 21st century American architecture as The Age of Wildlife Crossings.
– Louis Sahagun in the Los Angeles Times
For Inquiries & Investments
Beth Pratt
Founder, President & CEO, The Wildlife Crossing Fund
bpratt@wildlifecrossingfund.org, 209-620-6271
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