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From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth's great animal migrations

  • Written by Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth's great animal migrationsWildebeest crossing the Mara River in Tanzania during their annual mass migrationJane Rix/Shutterstock

For time immemorial, many wildlife species have survived by undertaking heroic long-distance migrations. But many of these great migrations are collapsing right before our eyes.

Perhaps the biggest peril to migrations is so common that we often...

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