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EPISODE · Oct 11, 2016 · 27 MIN

Wildlife-Friendly Motorways

from Costing the Earth · host BBC Radio 4

Motorways kill animals. That's unavoidable. But can road builders minimise the death toll with badger tunnels, bat flyovers, and green bridges covered in plants rather than tarmac? Tom Heap travels to the Gwent Levels and the Netherlands to find out.Producer: Sarah Swadling.

Episode metadata supplied by the publisher feed · Published Oct 11, 2016

Motorways kill animals. That's unavoidable. But can road builders minimise the death toll with badger tunnels, bat flyovers, and green bridges covered in plants rather than tarmac? Tom Heap travels to the Gwent Levels and the Netherlands to find out.Producer: Sarah Swadling.

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