Crossings and Corridors Project


fStop's Crossings and Corridors Project

What is the Crossings and Corridors Project?

The CCP is a partnership between the fStop Foundation, the Florida Department of Transportation, and the Florida Wildlife Corridor organization.

 

The goals of this project are to create the necessary image and video content to allow all of the partners to create awareness to the importance of wildlife corridors and crossings in Florida, as well as to help FDOT increase the number of functioning wildlife crossings throughout the State.

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fStop’s role in this project is to establish a network of cameras in specific roadway culverts and underpasses so we can create the necessary image and video content to help make these future crossings a reality.  We are also installing cameras in established and functioning wildlife crossings to show how these benefit wildlife in Florida.

FDOT brings to the table the desire and the ability to incorporate future wildlife crossings into road expansions that are projected to happen in the coming years.  They also share its growing GIS Wildlife Crossing website showcasing wildlife utilizing existing crossings.

The FLWC works toward the goal of securing protections for the remaining 7 million acres of the 17 million acre Florida Wildlife Corridor through strategic partnerships such as ours.  Wildlife crossings without habitat protections can soon become monuments to missed opportunity and reminders of what we’ve lost.

There has never been a greater need to protect the Florida Wildlife Corridor and to grow the network of functioning wildlife crossings.

Jason Lauritsen
Executive Director, Florida Wildlife Corridor

As Florida continues to grow with an inflow of approximately 900 people a day, there is great pressure to expand existing road infrastructure to accommodate this growth. There is also an increasing need to create housing and develop businesses that can absorb the growth. If we wish to protect our wildlife, we must protect the corridors that sustain them. There has never been a greater need to protect the Florida Wildlife Corridor and to grow the network of functioning wildlife crossings.

Statistics

There is a tremendous amount of raw data that is produced by our cameras.

On average, each camera will produce an average of 186 minutes of video recordings per month.  Of these, we will end up using around 12 minutes which represents the best footage from each deployment.

# of Cameras Deployed

Avg. Total Minutes Recorded per Camera per Year

Avg. Minutes of Usable Video per Camera per Year

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