Urban wildlife faces unique welfare challenges from traffic, pollution, habitat fragmentation, and human-wildlife conflict that require targeted interventions.
Urban environments create a landscape of welfare risks for wildlife: roads fragment movement, artificial light disrupts biological rhythms, and discarded waste causes entanglement and ingestion injuries. Animals that become habituated to human food sources face nutritional deficiencies and increased human conflict. However, urban environments also offer opportunities for welfare improvement through wildlife corridors, crossing structures, pollinator gardens, and responsible waste management. City planning increasingly incorporates wildlife welfare considerations.