Making Cities Better Places for Humans and Wildlife
Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Information Network (UWIN) is a collaborative group of researchers in institutions across the globe working together to understand urban wildlife.
Our mission is to collaborate with partners across diverse cities to replicate research methods and collect data which can support humans and wildlife to coexist on our urbanizing planet.
We live on an urban planet
Every city is home to wildlife, which means we have countless opportunities to create healthier habitats for both wildlife and people while improving how we coexist. To understand broader patterns of urban wildlife, we first need data from all around the world.
Wildlife
Research
What began as a small camera trapping collaboration is now an international network of scientists using shared sampling frameworks to systematically answer ecological and behavioral questions about urban wildlife.
8.4 Million
Images Uploaded to the UWIN Database
80 +
Partner Institutions
600
Species Identified
60 +
Cities World Wide
World’s
Largest Urban Wildlife Dataset
"UWIN has truly revolutionized urban wildlife research. Not only is it one of the most successful large-scale research collaborations that I'm personally aware of, producing dozens of highly impactful research articles, but it has also catapulted the careers of many of its members."
— A.G, Research Professor
"UWIN finds its strength in being an open, collaborative research network that standardizes collective urban wildlife research while allowing individual researchers to pursue their own unique questions.
Its vast geographic footprint allows greater questions about humans and wildlife to be asked and answered in a way that no one research lab could, and its deep pool of highly competent research scientists is always eager to support new research questions."
— J.W, Conservationist
80 + Partner Institutions Worldwide
Founding Partner
Supporting Humans and Wildlife to Thrive and Coexist
The Urban Wildlife Information Network (UWIN) works in collaboration with developers, architects and urban planners to bridge scientific research with the development and design of wildlife-friendly cityscapes.
UWIN Summit
Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Institute hosted the second-ever Urban Wildlife Information Network Summit, bringing together over 40 scientists from ten countries.
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