“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” Henry David Thoreau
Not only does highway travel pollute our air but, as this preview suggests, roads cut our wildlife sanctuaries in half. On Wednesday, April 20, at 9pm, WGBY airs NOVA: Wild Ways, which explores how newly established wildlife corridors offer hope to our planet’s endangered species from Yellowstone to the Yukon, to Southern Africa’s elephant highways stretching across five nations.
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