Barriers to building wildlife‐inclusive cities: Insights from the deliberations of urban ecologists, urban planners and landscape designers

Cities are seen as quintessentially human; however, because they can offer viable habitat to many plants, animals and other forms of life, cities also dynamic ecosystems. As urban areas expand house more the global human population reduce natural for wildlife, need wildlife-inclusive planning design becomes increasingly pressing. The 2019 Urban Wildlife Information Network Summit responded this by connecting a group 80 scientists, planners designers examine role in combating biodiversity crisis. focused on identifying addressing barriers transdisciplinary work between these communities, such disciplinary silos, varying incentive structures, funding, differences spatio-temporal scale, existing infrastructure values bias. We explore challenges network building revealed potential solutions overcoming obstacles effective collaboration around cities. A free Plain Language Summary be found within Supporting article.