Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Conservation Program Goes National

Lincoln Park Zoo President and CEO Kevin Bell and Lincoln Park Zoo Urban Wildlife Institute (UWI) Director Seth Magle today announced an unprecedented initiative to help save the country’s urban wildlife.

The zoo has partnered with universities, wildlife organizations and other institutions to expand its Urban Wildlife Information Network (UWIN) to eight cities across the U.S., including Denver, Indianapolis, Austin and Los Angeles. Launched by Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Institute in Chicago in 2010 and already the world’s largest urban wildlife monitoring infrastructure, the urban biodiversity study seeks to help people and animals thrive together by gathering and analyzing data on urban biodiversity and, ultimately, discovering and applying solutions to existing or potential human-wildlife conflicts.