Do Green Bridges Really Save Animals?

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Sulphy pedder is the economists paris bureau chief. Green bridges are designed to reduce road kill and help animals roam more freely from one side of the motor way to the other. In europe an estimated, 29 million mammals are killed on roads each year. But they do make a small difference, but they aren't, by themselves, obviously single handedly saving frances by a diversity, right?

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