From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth's great animal migrations
- Written by Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
Wildebeest crossing the Mara River in Tanzania during their annual mass migrationJane Rix/Shutterstock
For time immemorial, many wildlife species have survived by undertaking heroic long-distance migrations. But many of these great migrations are collapsing right before our eyes.
Perhaps the biggest peril to migrations is so common that we often...
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