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Urban wildlife

July 2024

  • A hedgehog in an urban garden in Manchester. Photograph: Whittaker Geo/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balconies – podcast

  • Herring gulls circling a polystyrene container of chips, with one eating from the box

    Pass notes
    XL gullies: how birds ‘as big as turkeys’ took over Britain

June 2024

  • A fox standing on an urban wall.

    Brief letters
    Once foxes come, they’re here to stay

    Brief letters: Foxed by Camden council | Spatula posting method | Letterbox intolerance | Biden’s Waffle House | “Milliganesque”

May 2024

  • A European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), in an urban garden in the UK

    The long read
    Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balconies

  • Phineas Harper

    Trigger-happy councils mowing down our spring flowers? There’s a better way to do things

    Phineas Harper

March 2024

  • Gio Iozzi

    The crowds flocking to Banksy’s latest work are missing the point: the damaged tree at its heart

    Gio Iozzi
  • Agnès Poirier

    A glorious lineage, or an expensive disaster? Paris is at war over 300 wild rabbits

    Agnès Poirier

January 2024

  • A pair of ring-necked parakeets

    Country diary
    Country diary: Parakeets on my feeder, while I’m on the fence

    West Norwood, south London: These new kings of the urban jungle divide opinion, but I can’t help but enjoy their splash of colour in my winter garden

November 2023

  • Rat plague leaves piles of dead rodents in Queensland town – video

    An extended wet season and a larger than usual harvest has created the ideal conditions for a rat plague

October 2023

  • Plane trees in Surry Hills. The City of Sydney has decided to stop planting Plane trees across the city in an effort to line the streets with more drought tolerant plants.

    Sydney turns over a new leaf and says goodbye to much-maligned plane trees

    Trees once described as ‘about as much use to our wildlife as concrete posts’ to gradually be phased out in favour of more drought-tolerant plants

September 2023

  • A woman crouching in a garden bed.

    ‘I call it botanarchy’: The Hackney guerrilla gardener bringing power to the people

    For author Ellen Miles, planting in public spaces is a radical act that’s about community ownership and belonging

August 2023

  • Alys Fowler

    Salute the tree saved from the axe because people showed they loved it. That’s the fighting spirit we need

    Alys Fowler
  • A gull flies directly towards in the camera

    ‘They’re here at our invitation’: how gulls took over the UK’s cities

July 2023

  • Electric Avenue in Brixton

    Brief letters
    Bird on the wire nest on Electric Avenue?

    Letters: Brixton new-build | Derek Malcolm tributes | Stonehenge trees instead of tunnel | Send her Victorias | Chelsea on the cheap
  • Pigeon next to a decoy bird of prey (owl) deterrent on a window ledge with spikes<br>2CF3TM5 Pigeon next to a decoy bird of prey (owl) deterrent on a window ledge with spikes

    Time to end war on birds and find a way to coexist, say experts

    Discovery that some species build nests from anti-bird spikes highlights growing awareness in UK that deterrents don’t work
  • Bird's nest made from anti-bird spikes

    Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find

    Dutch study identifies several examples of corvids’ ‘amazing’ ability to adapt to the urban environment

June 2023

  • Sean Edwards, left, and Tom Synnott-Bellon the Digbeth Branch canal in Birmingham

    ‘Trying to get a bank spot is crazy as it’s become so popular’ - how gen Z got hooked on urban fishing

    Exhilarating, active, and doable in a lunch hour, urban fishing is booming among young people. Meet the new breed of anglers shaking up the banks

May 2023

  • Nesting Boxes being installed by the City of Sydney. Australia

    The makeshift solution for Sydney’s other housing crisis: nesting boxes for wildlife

    Recently planted trees will take 100 years to restore habitat lost through urbanisation. Ecologists are trying to fill the gap

April 2023

  • A Leopard walking along an alley between houses in India

    The age of extinction
    World’s cities go head to head in race to spot most urban wildlife

  • Squirrels closer to the centre of the city showed signs of lung damage in the air pollution study.

    Squirrels live longer in leafier parts of London, air pollution study shows

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