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It takes innovation and collaboration among the best professionals to redesign our roads, and it takes a partnership to make this happen. ARC’s partners work in many ways to support the science, design, construction and educational potential of wildlife crossings. Our partners include foundations, non-profit organizations, transportation agencies, and universities in Canada and the U.S. and we are proud to be fiscally sponsored by the Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs.
Our work has grown from hosting the world’s first International Design Competition for Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure in 2010 to a partnership dedicated to finding and implementing leading-edge solutions to human and wildlife mobility, and to long-term landscape connectivity.
We need your help: Join us and become part of the solution.
ARC is an international network whose mission is to identify and promote leading-edge solutions to improve human safety, wildlife mobility and long-term landscape connectivity. We do this by fostering innovation in the placement, design and construction of wildlife crossings. We know these are solutions that work, and we seek to share this knowledge to build support for safe passage. We do this in three ways:
ARC is organized around three core initiatives: communications, technology transfer and implementation.
Communications Initiative. The Communications Initiative is the curator of the ARC story—a story that is adapted to various contexts and audiences to best suit a diversity of educational opportunities that may include everyone from curious students to research scientists, engineers, designers and policy-makers.
Our current priorities include:
Technology Transfer Initiative. The Technology Transfer Initiative engages scientific, planning and engineering professionals working in the natural resource and transportation fields in research, development and deployment of wildlife crossings. In doing so, we are striving to normalize the idea of mitigation infrastructure for wildlife. We offer technical information from the ARC competition and ongoing research related to road ecology and effective designs for crossing structures. At the same time, we are listening and responding to the culture and needs of the transportation community to increase the likelihood that our information will inform and inspire built projects.
Our current priorities include:
Implementation Initiative. The Implementation Initiative serves to advance the deployment of new wildlife crossing structures to benefit both humans and wildlife, and to build support for systems of crossings with key decision-makers in priority regions. ARC partners are currently working with a variety of state and federal agencies to identify potential sites for ARC-inspired wildlife crossings.
In this context, our current priorities include:
ARC is steadily growing and we look forward to welcoming prospective corporate, municipal, state and other partners and supporters of our work. To join us, click here.
ARC Competition Finalists:
ARC Partners: