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The Banff Wildlife Crossing Project in Alberta, Canada, is essentially a bridge for animals & has reduced animal-vehicle collisions in the area by more than 80% (discoverapega.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They're very common in the Netherlands, at least

[–] Bassman1805 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Might be their tallest land features!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

F you!

I mean it's true but..

[–] Bassman1805 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Could be worse. Denmark is similarly flat, but has a manmade ski hill...built on top of a trash heap. They've got it worse for "goofy attempts at raising their maximum elevation"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Netherlands sincerely considered building an artificial mountain just so we could have ONE, but discarded it because it wasn't goedkoop

Which is the most Dutch fact I knot, closely followed by “you can cycle from the north of Groningen to the south of (Dutch) Limburg in just under a day”