Links

Urban Biodiversity and Sustainability Organizations

• BatWorld NoVa: A local bat rehabilitation center.
• Wild Neighbors: The Humane Society of the United State’s urban wildlife site.
• Casey Trees: A wonderful DC non-profit whose mission is to restore the District’s tree canopy.
• City Wildlife: DC’s first (and only) wildlife rehabilitation center.
• DC Environmental Network: A great, local non-profit that works to strengthen DC by protecting and restoring DC’s environment.
• The District Coyote Project: Our local urban coyote research and outreach project.
• Project Coyote: A national organization that focuses on finding solutions to how humans and coyotes can coexist, both in urban and rural areas.

Resources

• Wild Neighbors: The Humane Approach to Living with Wildlife (2nd Edition), by John Hadidian (et al.) is an excellent how-to guide if you run into trouble with wildlife. I highly recommend it!
• Human-Wildlife Conflict: Complexity in the Marine Environment, edited by Megan Draheim, Francine Madden, Julie-Beth McCarthy, and E.C.M. Parsons, is a series of case studies on marine-based human-wildlife conflict (HWC), but it’s relevant for terrestrial HWC as well. We focused on looking at the social drivers of HWC, and the way that so much HWC is actually conflict between humans about wildlife.