Wildlife Corridors
- ANS-Both the safety of animals and humans can be achieved through the creation of corridors
- Habitat corridors are still an efficient way of increasing biodiversity.
- Allow both animals and humans to occupy virtually the same areas of land, and thus co-exist
where without the corridor this would not be possible. - ANS-Positives
- Habitat corridors can be categorized according to their width.
- Typically the wider the corridor, the more use it will get from species.
- The strip of land will suffer less from edge effects such as weeds, predators, and chemicals if it
is constructed properly - ANS-Types of corridors
- How much a corridor is being used?
- Marking and recapturing animals is more useful when keeping a close eye on individual
movement - ANS-Monitoring use
- Increase biodiversity
- Maintain populations
- Population numbers become unstable and many animal and plant species become
endangered
- By re-connecting the fragments, the population fluctuations can decrease dramatically -
ANS-Purpose
- It would simply be easier to move animals between refuges than to buy land, install a corridor,
and maintain it.
- Protect habitat corridors may be the only option.
- Depend on the type, location, and size, which can all vary to a great degree.
- Many agencies are not willing to consider putting in corridors. - ANS-Costs
- Not much information has been gathered about their success.
- Another problem with corridors is that they are not as useful as simply preserving land so that
it cannot be fragmented.
- Even if corridors are sought as a solution, it does not necessarily mean that animals will use
them. - ANS-Negatives
- Plants
- Reptiles
- Amphibians
- Birds
- Insects
- Small Mammals - ANS-Corridor dwellers are species such as:
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