Animals Like Green Space in Cities—and That’s a Problem

[SecularMotion]

The Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C., had a bird problem.

The animals were trying to fly into the building’s atrium, hitting the glass around it, and dying. People found about five dead birds a week in front of the building, according to city officials.

Turned out there was a simple solution: keeping the lights off at night.

This kind of friction between humans and animals in cities is common. Elsewhere in D.C., a bus hit a snowy owl (it survived, only to be killed by a car months later in Minnesota). In New York City, a coyote climbed onto a bar roof, distressing some residents. And in March, P-22, a mountain lion living near Los Angeles may have killed a zoo koala.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160420-green-cities-design-animals-architecture-urban0/