As pontes de corda da Amazônia: 15 mil travessias e nenhum macaco atropelado

Monkeys live in the trees of the Amazon. But a road cuts the forest in two. So the monkeys come down and cross the road on the ground. Cars hit many of them there.

Now a Brazilian team hangs rope bridges over the road. The bridges go from one tall tree to another. There are eight of them near Alta Floresta. Cameras watch the bridges day and night. In fifteen months, animals cross fifteen thousand times. And not one animal dies on the road.

Monkeys are not alone up there. Sloths and small opossums also use the bridges. The idea is simple and it is cheap. So the road agency of Brazil wants this design on other roads too.