Habitat Corridor

A habitat corridor, also called a wildlife corridor or green corridor, is a strip or stretch of land that connects populations of wildlife that have been separated from one another by human activity such as agriculture, urban development, or roads. Corridors counter the harmful effects of habitat fragmentation by allowing animals to move between isolated patches, which reduces inbreeding and the loss of genetic diversity within small, cut-off populations and supports processes such as seasonal migration, colonization of new areas, and interbreeding between groups; they can also help species shift their ranges in response to climate change by linking warmer habitat to cooler habitat. Notable examples include the network of wildlife overpasses and underpasses built along the highway through Banff National Park in Canada, which reduced wildlife vehicle collisions by roughly eighty percent, and the Florida Wildlife Corridor, which by 2021 had secured close to eighteen million acres of connected land. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/