Seattle residents reported a sharp rise in urban wildlife sightings during the COVID-19 lockdown, but local researchers say the animals may not have changed as much as we think. More likely, we have. With people spending more time outside and sharing sightings on social media, the wildlife was always there. We just started noticing.

A new research project using 34 motion-activated cameras across the region is working to document and understand it all, as part of the Urban Wildlife Information Network's growing network of partner cities across North America.

Woodland Park Zoo and Seattle University are asking greater Seattle residents to help track urban carnivores through a new online tool called Carnivore Spotting.

Saskatoon has joined the Urban Wildlife Information Network, a 21-city research collaborative that uses motion-sensitive cameras to study how animals live alongside humans in urban environments.

A University of Washington Tacoma study found that coyotes can habituate to humans in as little as two to three years, and that bold, fearless parents raise bold, fearless offspring. The research has real implications for cities across North America, where coyotes are increasingly settling in and making themselves at home.

Coyote sightings in Tacoma's North End have been rising sharply, jumping from 9 reported citywide in 2016 to 42 by late 2018. But wildlife biologist Matthew Stevens says the population may not actually be growing, fall simply brings more sightings as young coyotes venture out in search of food and territory.

Writer Gavin Van Horn spent a day in the field with Seth Magle, a wildlife ecologist at Lincoln Park Zoo's Urban Wildlife Institute, riding along as he checked motion-triggered cameras across Chicago.

The City of Edmonton and the University of Alberta have become the first Canadian partners in the Urban Wildlife Information Network (UWIN), a growing research initiative originally launched by Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.

What started as a Chicago-based initiative is now going global. Lincoln Park Zoo's Urban Wildlife Institute, launched in 2010, uses motion-triggered cameras and acoustic monitoring equipment to study how animals live alongside humans in urban environments.

The world’s largest urban wildlife monitoring infrastructure has breached international borders! Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Institute today announced the international expansion of the Urban Wildlife Information Network (UWIN).

Most of us assume wildlife stays out in the wild — but a piece by Jeff Turrentine for the NRDC challenges that assumption. From mountain lions in Los Angeles to wild boars in Berlin, urban wildlife is far more common than we think.

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.