Animals crossing: the simple solution to stop roadkill in the Amazon

<p>Installation of eight canopy bridges in Alta Floresta has enabled 15,000 safe crossings by animals including spider monkeys and marmosets – and more bridges are planned elsewhere</p><p>By about 7am, with dense fog blanketing the landscape, Gabriel Falquetto had already come across several road-killed animals along the ES-164 highway in Brazil’s Espírito Santo state. The biologist was on his way to Kaetés private natural heritage reserve (RPPN) in the Atlantic Forest, where he monitors wildlife and roadkill.</p><p>Then he spotted the lifeless body of a primate on the pavement. It was a buffy-headed marmoset (<em>Callithrix flaviceps</em>), a species <a href="https://www.iucnredlist.org/search?query=Callithrix%20flaviceps&amp;searchType=species">listed as critically endangered</a> on the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list. An estimated 2,500 individuals remain in the wild, making it one of the world’s most threatened primates.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/09/animals-crossing-simple-solution-roadkill-amazon-brazil-alternatives">Continue reading...</a>