New Wildlife Overpass Zeiningen
A wildlife overpass in the form of a green bridge is being constructed on the A3 Augst-Birrfeld motorway near Zeiningen. Preparatory work outside the national road perimeter began in spring 2024. The main construction work in the motorway area begins in mid-October 2024 and will last approximately one year. During these works, lane shifts will occur in the construction zone on the motorway.
“In the Shadow of the Hedges”
In 2001, the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN defined a total of 303 wildlife corridors of supra-regional significance.
These enable the intermingling of wildlife populations and thus promote the development of biodiversity. Among them is the wildlife corridor «AG No. 1 Möhlin-Wallbach», which connects the Aargau Jura with the southern Black Forest in Germany.
Due to various transport routes, this wildlife corridor is currently interrupted. To restore it, a crossing of the A3 Augst-Birrfeld motorway near Zeiningen is planned, among other measures. It spans the A3 motorway and a municipal road as a 50-metre-long, three-span reinforced concrete frame structure.
In parallel and in spatial proximity, the Canton of Aargau is realising an «eco-corridor» consisting of hedgerows, verges and meadows.
RECREATIONAL HUNTER RADAR
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
