{"id":289017,"date":"2026-04-28T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289017\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:46:08","slug":"the-worlds-largest-wildlife-crossing-finally-has-an-opening-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289017\/","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s largest wildlife crossing finally has an opening date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing has a completion date: Dec. 2, announced at an Earth Day news conference held on the structure rising over a 10-lane stretch of the freeway. Cars whizzed by below.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when the ribbon will be cut and mountain lions suffering from a lack of genetic diversity are expected to get their ticket out of the freeway-locked Santa Monica Mountains to seek mates elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a visionary project that was the impossible dream,\u201d said Beth Pratt, California regional executive director with the National Wildlife Federation and the public face of the crossing. \u201cThis is something that\u2019s captured the imagination of Angelenos, captured the imagination of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing has a completion date: Dec. 2, announced at an Earth Day news conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[123588,123586,283,123587,24093,5154,123589,92350,123585,123590,48,52,51,47928,15096,47,50,49,10805,16814,8074],"class_list":["post-289017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-beth-pratt","tag-california-regional-executive-director","tag-car","tag-completion-date","tag-dec","tag-freeway","tag-freeway-locked-santa-monica-mountains","tag-genetic-diversity","tag-imagination","tag-impossible-dream","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lack","tag-large-wildlife-crossing","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-national-wildlife-federation","tag-opening-date","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}