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.
There’s a reason I wanted to support this…We need to move beyond mere conservation, toward a kind of environmental rejuvenation. Wildlife crossings are powerfully effective at doing just that. There are solutions to our deepest ecological challenges, and this is the kind of fresh new thinking that will get us there.”
– Wallis Annenberg, Chairman of the Board, President,
and CEO of the Annenberg Foundation
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
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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 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 & CEO, The Wildlife Crossing Fund
bpratt@wildlifecrossingfund.org, 209-620-6271
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