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WILDLIFE DESIGN

building SYMBIOSIS BETWEEN THE NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENTS.

SPRING | 2022

Regardless of where you stand politically, there is no denying the greater natural environment that surrounds us. Our development was first and foremost natural - natural elements, ecosystems, resources, and landscapes were the foundation to our earlier populations. Ironically, this has not changed - our perception of and approach to the natural environment has on the other hand. Since getting caught up in industrialization, tools crafted for human progress, we have terribly strayed away from our environmental foundation. In fact, in many cases, we have had the audacity to straight up deny the natural environment... as if it does not exist.... Consequently, we have directly contributed to the erosion of our natural environment and its resources and species - we have consciously and intentionally destroyed a component so profound that our very survival depends on it. We have traded the green environment for the built environment - overlaying tons upon tons of pavement, concrete, toxicity, and artificial mechanisms - all while simultaneously wondering why public health faces new and resilient challenges within our overly developed world millions believe to be evolved.

coexistence with NATURE and understanding its FLORA and FAUNA is the key to SUSTAINABILITY.

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I cannot help but feel shocked with the lack of foresight. We speak of sustainability constantly and across different media, but do we really understand what sustainability entails? Sustainability requires foresight - it means sustaining our natural environment, as our natural environment sustains us (and any and all upcoming generations). In tying these profound questions oriented around our awareness of the natural environment and the major role it plays in human life to our specific profession, Urban Planning & Urban Design, a sustainability move can come in the form of designing for nature, not just with natural materials. One specific type of design-fornature is Wildlife Design. Wildlife Design means we tackle design challenges by harmonizing our built demands with nature’s needs. Our wildlife help maintain our natural environment, so it is crucial to ensure our built, urban areas and activities do not hinder our wildlife, their habitats, and activity/roles. Sustainable, eco, and green design are the umbrella to Wildlife Design because they share the same aim: preserve, conserve, and help our natural environment via coexistence and symbiosis. Our urbanized areas have many flaws - one being detriment upon our natural environment. Wildlife Design can be a key to our adaptation and mitigation efforts. Appreciating your readership as ever,

MaryDena Apodaca MásDesign Founder | Creator of Más

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Rooting the Theme

Noteworthy Example

Guest Perspective

Application - Precedents

Call to Action

Sketch Look Book

Word on the Design Street

Resources

Más is published quarterly by MásDesign. subscribe for free at www.másdesign.com. EDITORIAL Editor in Chief MaryDena Apodaca

Content Creator & Designer MaryDena Apodaca

Article Contributor Dan Cahalane If interested in contributing to a future issue of MÁS, please reach out via www.másdesign.com.

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Discover the ways members of the Design, Development, and Conservation Industries are building for our wildlife, and how this approach is, simultaneously, helping to create a sustainable future for both people and nature.

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wildlife design

Within the whirling ways of nature, resides the irrefutable key to our human population’s existence and survival. Why would we not design for our wildlife, knowing wildlife is a unit of nature and that all its essential and complex systems are directly tied to us? Although wildlife design is not anywhere near a new form of design, it has, unfortunately, seen mild interest within the US. Europe and other regions of the world have, on the other hand, exercised a stronger pursuit of wildlife design. Regardless of interest level, wildlife design goes hand-in-hand with sustainability and deserves greater attention and implementation.

What exacty is wildlife design? Wildlife design sits on a scientific and design foundation - a foundation that draws equally from environmental conservation and the development disciplines (urban planning, architecture, civil/ structural engineering, and construction). Wildlife design is essentially a form of design focused on strengthening, reconnecting, or cultivating habitat for different wildlife species. Additionally, wildlife design helps sustain our natural environment and its resources. So, overall, wildlife design is complex, comprehensive, and requires engaging various elements and fields to be successful. Wildlife design cannot be achieved via science alone and, likewise, cannot be impactful and helpful via development alone (that just equates to typical built environment products which are directly destroying our natural environment). Wildlife design’s complexity may be a reason why wildlife design is not considered popular within the design and development industries; however, the environmental conservation side of things has maintained a more active role in considering built mechanisms and concepts that can assist our natural environments, its wildlife and their habitats.

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wildlife design yields biodiversity

Why is wildlife design important? Why is wildlife design key to consider and, accordingly, so crucial to develop more extensively? The answer is biodiversity. Biodiversity refers to the variety of flora and fauna, or plant and animal species, within a space - more specifically, a natural space. Biodiversity is not only tantamount to the health of the natural environment but also human wellbeing. According to the National Park Service, “Biodiversity gives resilience - from the microbes that contribute to the formation of the human biome to the genes that help us adapt to stress in the environment - supports all forms of livelihoods, may help regulate disease, and is necessary for physical, mental, and spiritual health and social well-being” (Buttke, Allen, and Higgins - Benefits of Biodiversity to Human Health and Well-being).

humans depend on biodiversity beyond food, air, and water. via biodiversity, humans depend on wildlife and wildlife depend on humans. in the context of biodiversity, design is about co-dependence & symbiosis. Photo Credit: National Park Service Spring, 2022 |

Scale of Human Dependence on biodiversity & wildlife Human dependence on biodiversity is vast, but scientists, environmental conservationists, urban planners, and designers alike are or should be aware of four main types: Provisioning, Regulating, Cultural, and Supporting. All four describe specific services provided by biodiversity.

Humans depend on biodiversity for survival.

Provisioning Services

Provisioning Services are the products humans (and other species) highly depend on for essential functions ranging from the materials used to build or the food available to eat. In fact, wildlife itself is an important source of vitamins and protein, while botanicals are a key foundation to modern medicine. According to the Ecological Society of America (ESA), “118 of 150 most commonly used drugs are based on natural resources” (National Park Service | Buttke, Allen, and Higgins - Benefits of Biodiversity to Human Health and Well-being).

Plant species found in our urban parks to our national forests give us oxygen and help clean the carbon dioxide produced by emissions from our densely-populated urban environments.

Regulating relates to the ability of biodiversity to regulate the development of life and disease and to regulate climate impacts upon various environmental scales. Regulating Services revolve around ecosystems and processes that regulate the renewal of resources and the functionality of an environment.

regulating Services

Several built-environment systems have directly weakened ecosystems and, likewise, biodiversity. For example, deforestation and human disruption of wildlife habitats (via roads, etc.) have been found to be linked to zoonotic diseases, such as ebola. Viable ecosystems (with healthy vegetation and wildlife species) can mitigate natural disasters, like floods and hurricanes. Overall, ecosystems are an effective way to adapt to climate change. 8

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Biodiversity in the cultural sense means health for individuals, communities, and society at large.

cultural Services

Cultural Services include education, recreation, traditional knowledge, and increased opportunity for scientific discovery. Cultural Services essentially shape and promote a more symbiotic relationship between humans and nature by emphasizing the joint need to support life. Cultural Services encourage a more direct experience of nature, which has proven physiological and psychological health benefits for humans. These benefits are also scalable from the individual to the community level. Close access to green spaces, such as a park within an urban environment, aids in reducing health disparities among populations AND encourages more connectivity within communities, leading to lower crime rates and stronger mental health (National Park Service | Buttke, Allen, and Higgins via Largo-Wight, E. 2011. Cultivating healthy places and communities: Evidenced-based nature contact recommendations. International Journal of Environmental Health Research 21(1): 41–61).

Supporting Services refer to how biodiversity supports life. Supporting Services are the necessary inputs for life-building i.e. the services that support and help ecosystem services exist and endure. Supporting Services come in the form of “primary production (i.e., photosynthesis and chemosynthesis) of new organic matter, cycling of nutrients necessary for life, and pollination” (National Park Service | Buttke, Allen, and Higgins - Benefits of Biodiversity to Human Health and Well-being). Primary productivity is directly linked to biodiversity.

supporting Services

Humans, plants, and animals alike depend on Supporting Services (and their primary production) in order to survive. In fact, humans are “...estimated to use or co-opt 40% of all net primary productivity” (National Park Service | Buttke, Allen, and Higgins via Vitousek, P. M., P. R. Ehrlich, A. H. Ehrlich, and P. A. Matson. 1986. Human appropriation of the products of photosynthesis. Bioscience 36(6):368–373). Supporting Services are characterized as constant and creative, which overall speaks to their necessary role in keeping life afloat.

existing setbacks & design proactivity In connection with biodiversity, wildlife habitats are a substantial component in upholding the four biodiversity service types (covered previously on pages 8-9). Human populations and the multiple elements and products of the built environment have directly destroyed habitats in a variety of ways. In order to understand how we (specifically contributors in the Urban Planning, Design & Development Industry) can improve our role in sustaining the natural environment and be more proactive, impactful designers in the world of environmental conservation, knowing about principal setbacks is a solid place to start. Recently (not to discount existing wildlife design projects in the US), wildlife design has been given greater emphasis and value in the American context. Out of the $1.2 trillion budget of the present Infrastructure Bill, $350 million has been dedicated to wildlife-oriented infrastructure. Wildlife infrastructure includes designs ranging from wildlife fencing to habitat green roofs to wildlife crossings and bridges. However, despite dedication of funds specified for wildlife infrastructure use, we have to think about what is really being addressed by wildlife infrastructure and why wildlife infrastructure is necessary and crucial (again, in the greater biodiversity context). Wildlife infrastructure reveals a major setback in its purpose. Wildlife infrastructure exists to reconnect, renew, and/or create habitats for wildlife. Why is there a need to be directly involved in the development of habitats? The basic answer: our built environment has disconnected and destroyed habitats. Our road systems and auto dependency are a classic example of how we have negatively impacted our wildlife species and both the access to and existence of wildlife habitats. Between roads literally dividing up and disconnecting habitats, Wildlife Vehicle Collisions (WVCs) have killed multitudes of wildlife. According to findings by the Federal Highway Administration (US Department of Transportation), there is an “estimated 1-2 million collisions between cars and large animals ever year in the US” (Wildlife-Vehicle Collision Reduction Study - Report to Congress | 2008, p. 1). Likewise, approximately 200 people die from WVCs every year, while the annual cost of WVCs equates to about $8.4 million (Wildlife-Vehicle Collision Reduction Study - Report to Congress | 2008, p. 8-9). MásD

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Gaps in Knowledge, Insufficient Information, and Lack of Data are other setbacks to be aware of and to contribute to in the context of wildlife design and successful design solutions for both our wildlife and human populations.

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“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” ~ Albert Einstein

Noteworthy Example

#SaveLACougars, a campaign out of Los California (and part of the National Wild Federation), has been at the center of a development in the wildlife design aren spearheading the advocacy, design, dev and funding for a massive wildlife cross reconnect the habitat of the area’s local fauna, especially its critically-weakened lion population. Via a large public-priva partnership, this campaign is on the ver setting global wildlife history and prece

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Wildlife Crossing The wildlife crossing at Liberty Canyon will be setting a “worldwide model for urban wildlife conservation”. With years’ worth of research by the National Park Service revealing the Los Angeles area’s local mountain lion population facing a likely extinction in a not-too-distant future paired with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy’s 30-year history of protecting habitat for wildlife species (including the mountain lion) and nearly 50-year dedication of multi-millions of dollars for acquiring and preserving thousands of acres of open space in the Santa Monica Mountains, a wildlife crossing is without a doubt the next necessary step for the region’s natural environment. The wildlife crossing will be located at Liberty Canyon and will span across the 101 Freeway, making this crossing the largest in the world with its incredible scale and proportion.

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direct urban impact The Los Angeles metropolitan area contains approximately 20 million people and is the most densely populated area in the US. Two decades of study by the National Park Service in the LA area have revealed roads and development are not only proving deadly for animals trying to cross but have also created islands of habitat that can genetically isolate all types of wildlife.

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The Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing has a very strategic location. Within the last 1,600 feet of adjacent protected space north and south of Freeway 101 lies the area of key wildlife preservation the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing has been positioned in this area to further solidify its wildlife habitat connectivity success.

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P-22 | THE WILDLIFE CATALYST

The most well-known mountain lion of Los Angeles, P-22 has been integral in highlighting the habitat and population needs of his species within the area and, simultaneously, has sparked the urgency in introducing wildlife design solution in the form of the present Libert Canyon Wildlife Crossing.

Amazingly, P-22 has successfully crossed major freeway including Freeway 101, in search of more habitat territo and at the risk of his own life against hundreds of cars an large roads. He now resides smack dab in the middle of Los Angeles, generally within the Griffith Park zone at th age of eleven.

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Research by the National Park Service since 2002 (20 year period) has found that habitat isolation brought on by urban development has led to inbreeding within the mountain lion population in the greate Santa Monica Mountains area. This inbreeding has resulted in poor genetic development, which means the area’s mountain lion population could go extinct our lifetime.

The wildlife crossing would also mean fixing a genetic collapse.

Reconnecting an ecosystem for wildlife.

The biodiversity of the area has been severely isolated (hence the need for habitat connectivity) with the Pacific Ocean bordering on one side and a surrounding entanglement of urban development and freeways in other directions.

The wildlife crossing will create a key connection to vital open space to the north within the Simi Hills, Santa Susana Mountains, the more than 2,700 square miles of Los Padres National Forest, and thousands of square miles beyond that while also re-establishing a key habitat connection through the Santa Monica Mountains.

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your support is needed! As is the case with multiple large-scale designs and developments, funding plays a significant role. Funding is so pivotal that it can make or break a project. Although #SaveLACougars and its private-public partners have completed all the phases of the conceptual design, habitat research, and site analysis, they are presently still in the funding phase. Before construction of the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing can begin, all the necessary funding must be raised. #SaveLA Cougars has been able to raise 90.6% (as of 2/22/2022) of its $85 million campaign goal. They are immensely close! Your contribution can help them hit 100% and the completed habitat connection critically needed by Los Angeles’ mountain lions and other wildlife. Let us make wildlife design history together via the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing!

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These programs have been successfully implemented in the New Jersey Pinelands, New the Lake Tahoe Basin to protect habitat, water quality, and under pressure high quality f has been used for historical preservation, transferring air rights, and could be used to re daylight urban streams. The most effective environmental TDR programs have the following components:

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In the end, a TDR program is a useful policy tool to help balance the competing needs of environmental protection and urban development and needs to be adopted more widely to limit pressure on habitats, streams, wetlands, and other amenities. However, these programs need to be implemented in a comprehensive way in order to not place undue pressure on the environment, housing market, or both.

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- Dan Cahalane, MCRP | MBA Dan Cahalane is a practicing Planner in the U.S. with public policy, economic policy, and environmental experience.

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APPLICATION

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Klaas Kuiken, a Dutch designer, partnered with Vogelbescherming Nederland, a Dutch organization focused on the protection of birds, and developed the Bird House in an effort to provide bird habitat within human development. Noting birds typically nest within rooftops, Klaas also incorporated a nesting basket (made of wood and bird screen) located underneath the tile. This particular nesting basket design provides a realistic form of shelter for birds, keeps birds from moving beyond into the structure of the roof, generates healthy ventilation for the bird, and is very easy to clean after each breeding period.

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Arup Associates designed the Insect Hotel for a competition hosted by British Land and the City of London. The aim of the competition was to design a unique insect habitat within the context of London parks. Arup received the top prize.

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wildlife crossing and wildlife bridge combines habitat design and civil engineering. More often than not, wildlife sings and bridges are of a massive scale since they are mainly applied to roads and road systems like freeways; however, epicted above, wildlife crossings and bridges can be used to reconnect habitat that has been disconnected by humande waterways.

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Similar to a habitat green roof, this trash can serves a similar purpose but designed to be human scale and integrated into an every-day need: waste disposal. The sketch above shows a trash can you would find in a public space, such as a park or plaza, inside a shell that has a tiny habitat cover composed of plants and flowers that feed and shelter pollinators.

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tal or physical method without permission from MásDesign. If interested in any of the designs, please contact MásDesign at www.másdesign.com.

nd Sketches 2 & 3 | Urban Forestation Via The Miyawaki Method - Unit & In Urbanscape

design (in unit and context) above encompasses a process called afforestation. Afforestation means to establish a forest; specifically, afforestation refers to establishing a forest on land where forest never previously existed - this effectively mes very applicable in an urban or built environment. estation is inherent to the Miyawaki Method, a method developed and introduced by the Japanese botanist, Akira waki, and used for restoring native trees and forests to an area. Miyawaki Method has been tested and proven extensively in Japan and has a 97% success rate for tree survival and 100 the biodiversity of your typical green space or park. e urban and built environments, the Miyawaki Method (if applied) would lead to urban pocket forests that go beyond , recreational space often found in the common pocket parks, since the Miyawaki Method has an explicit and strong versity aim and effect. Miyawaki Method, as a type of wildlife design, ultimately generates urban biodiversity and ecosystems. : The use of native trees yields the maximum production of biodiversity and ecosystems.

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Word on the Design Street

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Current events, News, Views Do you enjoy reading up on urban planning, urban design, or general design news? MásDesign does, so here is a small scoop on what is going on in the greater environment with regards to WILDLIFE DESIGN.

rewilding europe “Rewilding Europe launches ambitious new strategy for 2030” By Rewilding Europe News | January 7, 2022 https://rewildingeurope.com/news/rewilding-europe-launches-ambitious-new-strategy-for-2030/

Key Word: rewilding Since being founded in 2011, Rewilding Europe has been on a mission to rewild the landscapes of Europe as an “effective, practical and immediate way of realis[z]ing nature recovery at scale”. Rewilding also addresses major human/society challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. For its 10-year anniversary, Rewilding Europe has set a new strategic plan for the period between 2021 and 2030, wherein, via collaborations and partnerships, it will increase its rewilding efforts to a more massive scale. This massive scale will include a growth in the number of rewilded landscapes from 10 to 15. The five new landscapes will amount to 500,000 hectares and will include marine and coastal ecosystems for the first time. The 15 landscapes combined will encompass 8 million hectares. This intensified rewilding plan demonstrates the significant role of wildlife design for both human and natural development. Via dedication, partnership and outreach, and viable designs and metrics/data, Rewilding Europe is proving feasible and impactful wildlife design methods exist. European Bobcat Cub | Photo Credit: Rewilding Europe.

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R E S O U R C E S

As with any issue of MÁS, MásDesign has you covered in terms o Wildlife Design precedents, research, data or initiatives, check o organizations, designers, and government bodies contributing -friendly projects and development.

organizations save la cougars Public Outreach & Wildlife Conservation | https://savelacougars.org/

national wildlife federation Wildlife Conservation | https://www.nwf.org/

rewilding europe Rewilding Initiative | https://rewildingeurope.com/

planning & design arc solutions Wildlife Bridge Design & Public Outreach | https://arc-solutions.org/

Klaas kuiken Product Design - Bird House Roof Tile | https://klaaskuiken.nl/birdhouse-newstock

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of resources. Whether you are looking for out the list below for top, comprehensive to wildlife- and natural-environment

government national park service Environmental Conservation & Policy | https://www.nps.gov/index.htm

U.s. department of agriculture Agriculture, Natural Resources & Policy | https://www.usda.gov/

u.s. army corps of engineers Infrastructure, Water & Environmental Protection | https://www.usace.army.mil/

federal highway administration Infrastructure & Transportation | https://highways.dot.gov/

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our sustainability mission is inherently tied to our wildlife and their habitats we share the natural environment. let us then build with and for our wildlife - for our joint survival depends on a development partnership. let us create a future that blends the natural and urban harmoniously.

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