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Saskatoon is now the second Canadian city to join an international research project to understand wildlife living in urban settings.

“It means we can pool our information with other cities, and we can broaden our understanding of how urban habitats work,” said Candace Savage, chair of Wild About Saskatoon.

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“We’re just going to learn more by working with others. We’re not having to invent a new method to do these things; we’re able to take advantage of what other cities have learned.”

The Urban Wildlife Information Network began at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, and now has 21 partner cities across North America, including two Canadian cities, Saskatoon and Edmonton.

Eventually, the goal is to be able to study wildlife living in cities all over the world.

“The immediate goal is to be able to compare the wildlife communities between cities and across regions or even across countries,” said Maureen Murray, a wildlife disease ecologist at the Lincoln Park Zoo.