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Wildlife Crossings

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UKLA Book Awards 2025 longlist

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Catherine Barr - Author

This is a hopeful, globally minded introduction to how animals move and how people can reconnect habitats. Readers encounter real conservation examples, from elephant corridors and fish ladders to hedgehog highways and protected wetlands.

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Human development· ExplainedAnimal movement· ExplainedCoexistence· Explained

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Beyond the Cover

human developmentanimal movementcoexistencewildlife corridorscrossingsscientists and campaigners

Non-fictionPicture book

Themes in Context

Shared landscapes

Animals need connected routes for food, water, safety and mates, while roads, fences and other human structures can interrupt those routes.Exploratory / explanatory

How the book presents it: The book appears to frame coexistence as possible through practical changes to human environments, rather than treating human activity as wholly separate from nature.

Talk about: How does the book balance the needs of people with the needs of travelling animals?

Conservation solutions

The book presents examples including elephant corridors, a fish ladder, hedgehog highways, canopy bridges and protected wetland stopovers.Exploratory / explanatory

How the book presents it: Solutions are foregrounded as ways of protecting animal movement and reconnecting habitats, giving the subject a constructive direction.

Talk about: What makes a wildlife crossing effective in its particular place?

Why It May Be Worth Reading

It can open up conversation about the less visible infrastructure animals need: safe routes for finding food, water, safety and mates. The painted landscapes also offer a visual invitation to pause, search and notice species.

What Deserves Attention

The book may deserve attention where it explains that human development, roads, fences, fishing gear or dams can obstruct animal movement. Its conservation framing is solution-focused.

A Conversation Worth Having

How does each crossing help a particular animal, and what might happen if its route remains blocked? Which solutions seem easiest or hardest to create, and whose needs must be considered alongside wildlife?

Reading Approach

Read it in short sections, stopping to trace each animal’s journey and compare the different crossings. Use the illustrations as a shared observation activity, then discuss whether one solution could work in another habitat.

Confidence & Basis

Theme indicators describe how the book presents a topic; they are not a verdict on the whole book or your family's values. Confidence reflects how much book-specific material was checked. Only part of the book information was available, so some details remain unconfirmed.

What remains unconfirmed

Shared landscapes: The available detail does not show how disagreements, costs or trade-offs are handled.
Conservation solutions: The available detail does not establish whether all featured projects succeeded equally or what limitations they faced.

Wildlife Crossings: Protecting Animal Pathways around the World — Catherine Barr Books

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Checked: 19 September 2026.

Relevant to: Shared landscapes; Conservation solutions

WILDLIFE CROSSINGS