More than £130 million of taxpayers’ money is being used to fund wildlife crossing schemes intended to help animals move safely across roads, railways, and rivers. The reported total includes a project involving fish passage measures, described in one outlet as a “fish motorway.”
The figures are presented as covering a small number of schemes across different parts of the country. One outlet highlights that part of the spending—about £12 million—is linked to a fish-related initiative that it says is unmonitored. Other details about oversight, targets, and results are not included in the provided excerpts.
Overall, the reporting centers on the scale of public spending and the specific concern raised about monitoring for at least one fish-crossing component. The context is that crossings are designed to reduce animal harm and support ecological connectivity, but questions about evaluation and tracking are raised by at least some coverage.
