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Wild cities

The team behind the Guardian's Age of Extinction series is celebrating the stunning biodiversity to be found in the world's towns and cities. In a special series of reports this week we are looking at how animals and plants adapt to city life, what to look out for right now and how we can encourage more wild cities in the future

2 May 2020

  • Black swans in Perth, Australia.

    Don't get in a flap: test your knowledge of urban birds – quiz

  • A pied wagtail walks across a deserted arrivals hall in Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport in London.

    Birdsong has risen like a tide of hope from our silenced cities. Is it here to stay?

    Stephen Moss

1 May 2020

  • Sophie Leguil, founder of More Than Weeds, stands over chalk names of plants on the pavement.

    'Not just weeds': how rebel botanists are using graffiti to name forgotten flora

  • A male slow worm. Slow worms are one of the UK’s six reptile species.

    Can't hurry love: slow worms embrace marathon sessions of lockdown loving

30 April 2020

  • Chris Packham presenting This Morning on ITV.

    Look up, look down: experts urge us to take a closer look at the concrete jungle

  • Chipmunk Chris Heron, Ontario (Canada)

    Wildlife through the window: what readers have spotted during lockdown

29 April 2020

  • RIMG6626 The move to extend citizenship to pollinators, trees and native plants in Curridabat has been crucial to the municipality’s transformation from an unremarkable suburb of the Costa Rican capital, San José, into a pioneering haven for urban wildlife.

    'Sweet City': the Costa Rica suburb that gave citizenship to bees, plants and trees

  • Wild cities: how can we make space for nature in urban areas? - video

28 April 2020

  • Ron Finley: Gangsta gardener

    'This is no damn hobby': the 'gangsta gardener' transforming Los Angeles

  • The Barbican's wildlife garden.

    'Nature survives in the tiniest corners': the City of London's wild heart

27 April 2020

  • A herd of fallow deer grazing on the lawns of a housing estate in Harold Hill, east London on 4 April 2020.

    'The bliss of a quiet period': lockdown is a unique chance to study the nature of cities

    Empty streets and skies let the birds be heard and leave animals free to roam as well as allowing scientists to examine how humans change urban biodiversity
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