Seth Magle, Executive Director of the Urban Wildlife Information Network and Director of the Urban Wildlife Institute at Lincoln Park Zoo, joins Jillian Roder, host of That Tracks, a Lincoln Park Zoo podcast, to discuss why understanding urban wildlife matters.

Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Institute hosted the second-ever Urban Wildlife Information Network Summit, bringing together over 40 scientists from ten countries.

Philadelphia has joined the Urban Wildlife Information Network, with research led by Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine in partnership with the Philadelphia Zoo, the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, and W.B. Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences.

Biophilic Cities partners with a network of cities, scholars, and advocates from across the globe to build an understanding of the value and contribution of nature in cities to the lives of urban residents.

A University of Alberta profile honors wildlife biologist Colleen Cassady St. Clair, whose decades of research on urban coyotes and human-wildlife conflict has reached hundreds of thousands of people across Edmonton.

New research from Lincoln Park Zoo's Urban Wildlife Institute finds that gentrified neighborhoods support significantly more wildlife species than comparable ungentrified areas in the same city, raising important questions about who gets to experience urban nature and who does not.

A paper by Urban Wildlife Information Network founder Seth Magle makes the case for why studying urban wildlife one city at a time was never going to be enough. Now spanning 47 cities across four countries, UWIN is working to build the first truly global picture of how wildlife and people share urban spaces, and what it will take to make cities part of the solution to the biodiversity crisis.

A Columbia University feature profiles researchers systematically mapping urban wildlife across New York City, from raccoons in Brooklyn cemeteries to coyotes in Central Park. The project, now part of the Urban Wildlife Information Network, is making the case that understanding the animals sharing our cities is essential, not just interesting.

A UGA student profile follows Lavendar Harris, a senior wildlife sciences major who has spent the past year sorting through over 64,000 trail camera images taken across Athens as part of the Urban Wildlife Information Network.

From bobcats in the Bronx to otters in Chicago, urban areas are emerging as surprising refuges for biodiversity, and scientists are increasingly arguing that making cities wildlife-friendly is not just worthwhile but essential to the future of conservation.

Nearly 200 University of Houston students helped earn the city a spot in the Urban Wildlife Information Network, tracking wildlife across Houston's parks, cemeteries, and green spaces.

University of Nebraska undergraduates are spending their summer doing real conservation fieldwork, thanks to grants from the Cabela's Apprenticeship Research Project.

Raccoons have been spotted on wildlife cameras in Edmonton for the first time, caught by researchers working with the University of Alberta and the Urban Wildlife Information Network.

A camera spotted on a tree in Buffalo's Delaware Park turned out to be part of a new urban wildlife monitoring project led by Canisius College and the Urban Wildlife Information Network.

A squirrel caught on camera making off with a tortilla has become an unlikely recruitment tool for urban wildlife research.

Researchers at Butler University have spent years documenting Indianapolis wildlife through cameras placed across the city, and one finding keeps standing out: the city has far more raccoons than comparable cities like Chicago and St. Louis.

Thirty-four cameras strapped to trees across Saskatoon are now photographing whatever wildlife passes by, from deer and coyotes to potentially invasive wild boar.

Cameras placed across 30 sites in urban parks throughout central Arkansas are capturing something most city residents never expect to see right down the street: foxes, bobcats, hawks, and more.

When Chicago's restaurants shut down during the pandemic, the city's rats got one last feast. Then they started to starve. As humans retreated indoors, the urban habitat that rats had spent millennia adapting to suddenly changed, and they had to adapt again.

In November 2019, scientists, urban planners, and community leaders from across North America gathered at Lincoln Park Zoo for the first ever Urban Wildlife Information Network summit. The meeting marked a milestone for a growing movement to make cities more wildlife-friendly through research, collaboration, and smarter urban planning.