Check out these new Swedish “renoducts,”—a play on the Swedish word for reindeer and “viaduct”—that will help the country’s reindeer safely travel without being hit by cars.
In Sweden, where the temperature is rising more than twice as fast as the global average, it’s getting harder for native reindeer to survive. One challenge is finding food in the winter: As warmer weather means that rain sometimes mixes with snow, the ground becomes icy, so the animals can no longer dig down through the powder to reach the lichens that they need to eat. Because they have to travel farther in search of better pastures, they often have to cross busy roads—and that’s why the Swedish government is building a set of reindeer bridges to help them move safely.