In many countries, large corporations don’t care about the environment and small parts of environment. In a recent story, reported by rail news highlighted the efforts of West Japan Railways who teamed up with a local organization to save the lives of countless turtles. There’s always hope and something that we can do for the environment. in this case, a large corporation has taken the effort and they have been rewarded with a lot of good publicity.
My favourite story this week comes from Japan where railway workers have devised an ingenious scheme to prevent daredevil turtles from meeting a grisly end – and delaying trains – while crossing railway tracks. The slow-moving reptiles in western Nara prefecture were responsible for 13 disruptions to train services between 2002 and 2014 after tumbling into the spaces between rail switches and getting squashed, according to West Japan Railways officials.
So the rail company teamed up with the Suma Aqualife aquarium in Kobe to find a novel solution: installing shallow trenches under the tracks that allow the plodding creatures to cross without getting crushed to death. “The turtles are basically just going about their daily business and have to cross the lines to get to a pond,” a spokesman said. “When the point blades move, unfortunately they get squashed between them and die. “There are a lot of turtles in the area and they are simply moving from A to B,” he added. “But they can cause long delays to operations so we consulted with a turtle specialist to find the best way to help them.”
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