Great question. The barbed wire is there to collect hair samples that are later used for DNA analysis. DNA tells us what kinds of wildlife are using the overpass but also whether it is the same individual or different individuals of the same species. Fortunately, the barbed wire doesn't injure wildlife and is removed after a period of time.
@@parkscanada You guys do a great job and I support you. Digital cameras have evolved and are relatively inexpensive. But you know that. Just saying :)
Thanks Parks Canada, over the years your service deserves a lot of respect, thanks for protecting our Parks and Animals. Now if we can train people to look after them also. More videos please, these were great, always wondered how successful these over/under passes were.
Fantastic informative video! I learned a lot especially how Canada is saving lives, both human and animals, by reducing collisions with these animal overpasses and underpasses while filming the migrations with cameras. We need more of these in the United States where I reside.
Great Video! I look forward to the sequel. My prediction for the plot will be that Parks Canada sells the overpasses to Brewster (for pennies on the dollar) and then Brewster charges $25 for tourists to ride an escalator to the top of the overpass for a better view. Looking forward to it.
They are: Luke Richards “Lazy Summer for Two Pianos 4” … at the beginning, and … Dave James / Keith Beauvais “Texan Stomp” … (with the driving harmonica) from there afterwards.
I am a Indian, and I am reading a book " Crossings: how road ecology is shaping the future of our planet " from it, I have come to know about this world famous overpass across the trans - Canada road in Banff National park. Congrats to Me.Clevengar for helping the Grizzlies to cross over and mate.
Thank you Parks Canada! We need way many more overpasses and underpasses for wildlife all over Canada! This is a great example that should be copied all over the world. The US highways are always with dead deer, fawns, racoon families, foxes, so on. It is so sad and frustrating. I remember in a short 2 hours trip, I passed a family of racoons trapped and getting killed and 3 dead deer in Washington State. HORRIBLE! The drivers blame the animals, but it is the people who built those roads on their migratory paths, territories and feeding and mating areas. Humans have to do their share to compensate the wild animals for fragmenting and destroying their habitats of thousands of years, by building many more of these overpasses and underpasses.
This is fantastic. A underground / overground tunnel or bridge plus a highway adjacent barrier. I think we should stop the barbed wire practice though and simply utilize a camera or more humane DNA collection system. But this is amazing to me any way!
Hello. DNA hair samples are collected using barbed wire strung at crossings or at strategically placed “hair-snagging sites” on the broader landscape. Visit our website for more information www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/ab/banff/info/gestion-management/enviro/transport/tch-rtc/passages-crossings/faq/10
@@parkscanada I agree. I have sensitive eyes and could not finish watching it. I would love to watch again if it is ever made again in slower motion. Thank you for this though! I am a huge animal lover and enjoy helping lost animals find their way home or help find homeless animals their good and fur-ever homes. ♥️🐾🐈♥️🐾🐕♥️
I seen a few big guys from 0:42 and at 0:46 that guy was huge i was at jasper once years ago when i was 12ish my mom handed me the camera i told let me go take pics they had the biggest bull elk id ever seen just grazing along the road i within 3-4ft of him eat snapping pics without the flash of course he didnt seem to mind at all. At any moment in time he couldve hurt me with one fell swoop of his antlers but i feel like he knew i was no danger to him. Was an amazing experience
Hi Yeg. Please do not feed or approach wildlife. It is unhealthy for them and alters their natural behavior. Any wild animal can become aggressive if it feels threatened. Keep a distance of at least 30 m from most species and at least 100 m from bears. For more visitor safety information please visit our website www.pc.gc.ca/en/voyage-travel/securite-safety
Great question. The barbed wire is there to collect hair samples that are later used for DNA analysis. DNA tells us what kinds of wildlife are using the overpass and whether it is the same individual or different individuals of the same species. Fortunately, the barbed wire doesn't injure wildlife and is removed after a period of time.
I used to love watching for wildlife as I traveled thru the Park. Now with the fences, I see hardly anything. I feel like I'm in a zoo traveling down the highway. I'm 100% against the fences. I know they aren't coming down, but I liked it much better before. Now, there is no feeling of wilderness.
Great job of the videos Canada's parks are second to none but the website in which to reserve and plan a trip is complete fucking garbage can you please post a video on how to use and navigate parks canada website, I and others will be very grateful.
The barbed wire is there on purpose, it doesnt harm them through their thick fur coats, and it takes pieces of their hair. We can use this hair for genetic analysis to determine how genetically diverse and healthy a population is. Please do research before lashing out in utter ignorance.
What's the barbed wire for? Isn't that a little obstructive on a passage?
Great question. The barbed wire is there to collect hair samples that are later used for DNA analysis. DNA tells us what kinds of wildlife are using the overpass but also whether it is the same individual or different individuals of the same species. Fortunately, the barbed wire doesn't injure wildlife and is removed after a period of time.
Parks Canada Ah, camera traps and hair collection. I used this combination for my MRes project.
@@parkscanada You guys do a great job and I support you. Digital cameras have evolved and are relatively inexpensive. But you know that. Just saying :)
Try to slow the images down by 80% lol
The barbed wire slows them down too much ..some animals turn back
Wildlife collisions reduced by more than 80%. Wow. That is great.
yup! safer for us humans and the wildlife :)
This was amazing to see while we were in Banff AND so thankful for all the safety it's maintained!
Thanks Parks Canada, over the years your service deserves a lot of respect, thanks for protecting our Parks and Animals. Now if we can train people to look after them also. More videos please, these were great, always wondered how successful these over/under passes were.
Great job by Banff National Park. Beautiful thing to see, we should always protect wildlife.
You guys are awesome.. so many lives saved..
Thank you so much 😀
I live in melbourne and went to Vancouver in sep 2019. Also went on 5 day Rocky Mountain tour. Saw and went under these passings
Way to go Banff! I wish more places followed in your lead!
Wow, I just adore wildlife crossings! Reduction in wildlife collisions by 80% is fantastic!
Fantastic informative video! I learned a lot especially how Canada is saving lives, both human and animals, by reducing collisions with these animal overpasses and underpasses while filming the migrations with cameras. We need more of these in the United States where I reside.
This is fantastic information, we need this in the USA- it saves lives of all species. Great thinking about collecting the DNA.
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Sounds great to me. protecting the animals and the humans. that is why i love Canada😘
Great Video! I look forward to the sequel. My prediction for the plot will be that Parks Canada sells the overpasses to Brewster (for pennies on the dollar) and then Brewster charges $25 for tourists to ride an escalator to the top of the overpass for a better view. Looking forward to it.
This is great information! It's gonna help me with my social studies a lot thanks!!!
Glad it was helpful!
I was very impressed with the Passes for wildlife every country in the world should copy this idea,
Amazing channel! I like contemplating earth, discover and relax...
Awesome!!! Great Job guys and gals!
EXCELLENT, and thank-you to everyone involved... Who is the artist to this really bopping music.....
They are:
Luke Richards “Lazy Summer for Two Pianos 4” … at the beginning, and …
Dave James / Keith Beauvais “Texan Stomp” … (with the driving harmonica) from there afterwards.
I heard the wolves have figured out the passes and sometimes just wait for Elk or Deer to pass and ambush them.
🙀
@@williecosgrove Bryan Did not invent Clowns .
Awesome!
Thanks!
Over pass and under pass is very smart design. This should be done everywhere.
this is wonderful !
I am a Indian, and I am reading a book " Crossings: how road ecology is shaping the future of our planet " from it, I have come to know about this world famous overpass across the trans - Canada road in Banff National park. Congrats to Me.Clevengar for helping the Grizzlies to cross over and mate.
Thanks for watching!
Helping other creatures survive in this human dominated world is a must👍
Thank you Parks Canada! We need way many more overpasses and underpasses for wildlife all over Canada! This is a great example that should be copied all over the world. The US highways are always with dead deer, fawns, racoon families, foxes, so on. It is so sad and frustrating. I remember in a short 2 hours trip, I passed a family of racoons trapped and getting killed and 3 dead deer in Washington State. HORRIBLE! The drivers blame the animals, but it is the people who built those roads on their migratory paths, territories and feeding and mating areas. Humans have to do their share to compensate the wild animals for fragmenting and destroying their habitats of thousands of years, by building many more of these overpasses and underpasses.
Ontario (Canada) has them too, but I'm sure we could use more.
Good job 👏 ❤
if only all countries cared so much about their wildlife we wouldn't be in what we are now.
Cool great job!
Good ole Canada!!
Cool music! Who's that?
100 years in the to-do box. Finally
Interesting research, thank you for sharing. I imagine this can also be used to determine wildlife population and migration habits.
Perfect. Great jobs...
Really cool! Did you have to lure the animals over the overpass to convince them to cross or did they do it out of mere curiosity?
Snowking587 Wildlife begin using the crossing structures - both overpasses and underpasses - on their own.
Parks Canada
that's really remarkable! thanks for making it available for them!
Excellent !!!
What a great idea need a better fence to lead them to the overpass
We need this in Michigan!!!
This is fantastic. A underground / overground tunnel or bridge plus a highway adjacent barrier. I think we should stop the barbed wire practice though and simply utilize a camera or more humane DNA collection system. But this is amazing to me any way!
Hello. DNA hair samples are collected using barbed wire strung at crossings or at strategically placed “hair-snagging sites” on the broader landscape. Visit our website for more information www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/ab/banff/info/gestion-management/enviro/transport/tch-rtc/passages-crossings/faq/10
This REALLY needs a disclaimer 'FLASHING IMAGES -- EPILEPSY WARNING"
Thank you for your comment. The title has been modified to include a notice.
@@parkscanada I agree. I have sensitive eyes and could not finish watching it. I would love to watch again if it is ever made again in slower motion. Thank you for this though! I am a huge animal lover and enjoy helping lost animals find their way home or help find homeless animals their good and fur-ever homes. ♥️🐾🐈♥️🐾🐕♥️
I seen a few big guys from 0:42 and at 0:46 that guy was huge i was at jasper once years ago when i was 12ish my mom handed me the camera i told let me go take pics they had the biggest bull elk id ever seen just grazing along the road i within 3-4ft of him eat snapping pics without the flash of course he didnt seem to mind at all. At any moment in time he couldve hurt me with one fell swoop of his antlers but i feel like he knew i was no danger to him. Was an amazing experience
Hi Yeg. Please do not feed or approach wildlife. It is unhealthy for them and alters their natural behavior. Any wild animal can become aggressive if it feels threatened. Keep a distance of at least 30 m from most species and at least 100 m from bears. For more visitor safety information please visit our website www.pc.gc.ca/en/voyage-travel/securite-safety
@@parkscanada i appreciate that im 30 years old now but that story was from over 20years ago and i have much love for our wild life thank you
Yet no footage of actual crossings?
This is now. In my opinion, the best argument against the existence of the Sasquatch there is.
Hey, look! A Sasquatch! Quick, grab our lousiest camera!
#PARKSCANADA ☝️❤️🇨🇦
OMG I wish everywhere in Canada!!!
why unable to share on FB or Twitter ?????
There should be a share option. I just shared via text and to my Facebook page.
There's a window washer walking through at 1:35
They should be everywhere.Especially in high animal fatality areas.
I live about an hour from there....
I think that your video is way too hectic , way too fast & the music is very hectic too ! nice photographs but shown too choppy & quickly
deep respect
awesome
Why don't US parks do this?
they do. as usual, we are the last to adopt good ecological ideas
👍👍👍
moreee in ontario plsss
need this in toronto fr
Eco link
0:56 holy crap that guys running the show watch out
All inspired by the one lady who suggested to move the deer crossing signs…
pls more in toronto
20 thumbs down? seriously?
Interesting seeing a hawk at around 1:10!
AWSOME!
Why do they have those strings of barbed wire in the way???
Great question. The barbed wire is there to collect hair samples that are later used for DNA analysis. DNA tells us what kinds of wildlife are using the overpass and whether it is the same individual or different individuals of the same species. Fortunately, the barbed wire doesn't injure wildlife and is removed after a period of time.
I used to love watching for wildlife as I traveled thru the Park. Now with the fences, I see hardly anything. I feel like I'm in a zoo traveling down the highway. I'm 100% against the fences. I know they aren't coming down, but I liked it much better before. Now, there is no feeling of wilderness.
Are you trying to give someone a seizure? Flash more images rapidly across the screen, why don't cha?
LOL. I thought the same thing. Slow it down a bit. I'll still watch!
Great job of the videos Canada's parks are second to none but the website in which to reserve and plan a trip is complete fucking garbage can you please post a video on how to use and navigate parks canada website, I and others will be very grateful.
grizzlies took 6 - 7 years
Who let this Natalie Helferty out of her padded room long enough to comment on this? Geez
Woke!
I you care about the animals ... REMOVE the freakin barbed wire .....
+kkiikkii nono It does not hurt the animals. Just collects hair samples. And as a positive the animals get something to scratch their backs against.
The barbed wire is there on purpose, it doesnt harm them through their thick fur coats, and it takes pieces of their hair. We can use this hair for genetic analysis to determine how genetically diverse and healthy a population is.
Please do research before lashing out in utter ignorance.