14. The wildlife in our backyards: human-wildlife coexistence in urban environments

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14. The wildlife in our backyards: human-wildlife coexistence in urban environments

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14. The wildlife in our backyards: human-wildlife coexistence in urban environments

Episode produced by Chloe Fortune, Ava Shultz, Meera Mohindra and Alicja Zator.

In this episode of Sync into the Earth, we explore the topic of human-wildlife conflict in urban environments with a North American perspective. Encounters with wildlife are nothing out of the ordinary in urban city centers like Toronto and Edmonton, but do we ever stop to think about how our actions are impacting the wildlife with whom we share our cities? Throughout this episode we give focus to raccoons, coyotes and birds, as well as discuss recent peer-reviewed literature which investigates how living in cities impacts local wildlife. This includes studies on the physiological response of raccoons whose diets mainly consist of human food waste, the impact of diseases from bird feeders and our on-going problem with bird-window collisions. Included in this episode are special guest speakers Dr. Colleen Cassidy St. Clair from the University of Alberta, who discusses her work on the “Edmonton Urban Coyote Project,” and Victoria Badham from the Toronto Wildlife Centre, who discusses human-wildlife interactions and the work currently being completed by the Toronto Wildlife Centre to help local wildlife.

References:

Adelman et al. (2015). Feeder use predicts both acquisition and transmission of a contagious pathogen in a North American songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282:20151429. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1429

Kummer, J. A., & Bayne, E. M. (2015). Bird feeders and their effects on bird-window collisions at residential houses. Avian Conservation and Ecology, 10(2):6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ace-00787-100206

Schulte-Hostedde et al. (2018). Enhanced access to anthropogenic food waste is related to hyperglycemia in raccoons (Procyon lotor). Conservation Physiology, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coy026