Did you know that the San Francisco Bay Area has one of the highest wildlife-vehicle collision rates in all of California? Every year, wild animals’ habitats are reduced significantly due to human activity, forcing them out of their homes and eventually leading to our roads where they meet their untimely deaths. These wildlife-vehicle collisions reduce fragile wildlife populations, causing further damage to our already broken ecosystem. In California alone, ​​out of two million vehicle accidents reported to the California Highway Patrol from 2015-2017, half of them involved an animal collision and close to 20,000 involved a wildlife conflict. These collisions don't only hurt the wildlife, but also cause injury and even death to drivers and passengers. Fortunately, wildlife infrastructure such as fencing, overpasses, underpasses, and escape ramps effectively reduces wildlife-vehicle collisions. For example, it has been found that combining fencing with wildlife crossing structures reduces wildlife-vehicle collisions by about 83%.With the evidence on the benefits of wildlife infrastructure there is NO excuse to not build it! 

The Careful Crossways project is directly targeting this issue by advocating for wildlife infrastructure to be implemented in the San Francisco Bay Area. Careful Crossways is a project led by University of California Davis student, Morgan Karcs, focusing on educating the local community on the benefits of wildlife infrastructure. They are currently presenting at schools in the Bay Area and are reaching out to local organizations for their support. Their goal is to meet with Bay Area government officials so that wildlife infrastructure can be approved and eventually built! 

Please sign this petition to show your support for wildlife infrastructure to be built in the Bay Area!