In GCSE Geography students will look at wildlife corridors. This quiz examines some of the ways we can give animals safe passage through the landscape and around our developments. It also looks at how some of our activities are an obstruction to them.
Nature reserves and wildlife areas may be allowing individuals to live and survive, but without being able to move safely from one area to another the genetic diversity of a group is extremely restricted. Wildlife corridors allow the safe passage of animals between reserves and protected areas. As well as increasing the genetic diversity, these corridors protect the species as a whole against localised disasters such as forest fires or disease. These routes also allow animals to forage over a wider area and to migrate. They also make it possible for juveniles to disperse.