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- This is one of the rare headline where Amazon does not refer to the hyperscalerby nubg
- What? Amazon Canopy is their new Global Anycast Load Balancer product(GALB)!by fragmede
- I dunno, seems like Amazon the forest is the real hyperscalerby fritzo
- This is the kind of stuff Republicans in the US hate.
"big government wasting their money on a bunch of critters"
I'm pretty left. The one thing I will never understand is how the right does not care about nature. Just insane to me.
by honkycat - Yes, you would think 'conservatives' would be big on conserving "god's creation", but no. Apparently having 'dominion' over nature means killing it, not looking after it.
Also, the disconnect between Jesus's politics and what the Christian Right practices is pretty jarring.
by perilunar - California would find a much more expensive solution that worked far less well. The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing cost an estimated $115M--a total waste of tax payer funds. Bravo to this practical and effective solution.
- Not exactly apples to oranges though, is it?by kitd
- Ok what’s your solution? I’m seeing more and more wild life bridges and tunnels so clearly the engineers think they work.by bix6
- Whoa that's awesome. I didn't know California had one of those. Keeps animals, humans, and cars safe and looks beautiful too.by megaloblasto
- This is a solution specifically for arboreal animals, while the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is explicitly for mountain lions.by tokai
- Do the animals actually understand roads or that these are crossing points? Or a hope that a percentage will stumble upon them?by codeddesign
- Apparently, they doby acjohnson55
- They actually learn it, what's more crazy in Australia is that we have videos of some birds (bush turkeys/swans) using zebra crossings to cross because they know it's safe.by jofzar
- They probably see it as an easier crossing than coming down out of the trees to cross the road at ground level. They might feel it's safer too, as being on the open ground is more exposure to predators, which they would instinctively avoid.by SoftTalker
- It ends up being the path of least resistance. In many places, there are wildlife fencing around motorways, but it always ends up with holes and animals crossing via the holes, mostly because the animals want to get to the other side and don't find another way. I've never seen those kind of "hanging jungle bridges" like the article talks about, but "wildlife bridges" which literally are bridges with just earth/tress/vegetation on top I've encountered a bunch of times. When those exists, the animals who want to cross can then find a path to get to the other side, without resorting to making a hole in the fence and crossing the roads.
- Singapore have done something similar.
https://preview.redd.it/there-is-an-eco-bridge-in-singapore-...
by tanyongsheng - This is the first time Cloudflare has told me I am a bot and can't pass even if I click the box.by inigyou
- Oh snap, I'm so Hackernews-brained I thought Amazon (company) had sponsored the construction of special animal-crossing bridges for San Francisco freeways.by bitwize
- I remember reading that back in the day North America used to have more trees and dense vegetation that squirrels rarely touched the ground since that was more dangerous for them, so they would use the trees like highways.by dmix
- Tree squirrels are big on digging, they bury food for later retrieval and eat a good amount of terrestrial foods. You regularly see them on the ground even in dense forest. Flying squirrels stick more to the trees but their gliding ability means dense forest is not a requirement for avoiding the ground.by ofalkaed
- This is really cool. We have them in Kenya too. https://www.colobusconservation.org/how-to-build-a-colobridg...by aorth
- For one moment there I thought Amazon had done a good thing!by korijn
- I had the exact same reaction for a moment. But no, of course not.by everyone
- Selling you dirt-cheap goods with next-day delivery isn't enough for you?by Falimonda
- I thought for a moment this was some kind of reference to "no more destroyed Amazon Ground trailers on underpasses"...by kotaKat
- same - I was like "headline reads like PR but I guess it's good..." reminder to self: there was an Amazon before the bald booksellerby skeeter2020
- Pet peeve: companies that appropriate a dictionary term for their name, e.g. Apple, Google (& Alphabet), Amazon, Oracle. It's really not too hard to create a new name for your company, e.g. Microsoft, Facebook and Nvidia.by em3rgent0rdr
- We just had our first bear crossing on a wildlife here in the Northwest.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/first-black-bear-u...
I know these things are more complicated than they seem at first, but whenever these stories surface, I immediately go to an idealistic childhood cartoon land where we have a prime directive that tells us to go forth(!) and watch out for each other!
by ynac - I always wonder how the world would look if the bible had said "Respect the earth and all living beings" instead of “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion…"by vjvjvjvjghv
- Just wanna say, Monga Bay is an incredible publication that doesn't get enough attention. As someone who follows a lot of environmental news, they routinely cover important topics and do original journalism on stories I hear nowhere else. Their YouTube channel is full of extremely high quality videos that often get less than 2k views. I would highly recommend checking them out
https://www.youtube.com/@MongabayTV/videos
Here's a few of my favorites:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2rfy9HkzSs
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZEkt4Ph41M
by culi