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Shared Planet: Overland Migration

08/07/2014

Overland Migration

BBC Radio 4 - Shared Planet, Overland Migration

Monty Don explores the challenges in today's world of pronghorn and wildebeest migrations.

Monty Don examines how we make room to preserve the pronghorn and wildebeest migrations in North America and Africa.

Overland migrations of terrestrial mammals form some of the most impressive natural spectacles in the world. But humans have been making it more and more difficult for animals to move long distances overland. Roads and railways cause mortalities, fences block the way, growing towns and cities disrupt routes. Monty Don hears from projects in the USA designed to help the pronghorn antelope continue on its lengthy migration and how a road planned for the Serengeti might affect the wildebeest migration.

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