At a residential neighborhood in the Bernal Heights neighborhood in San Francisco, California (USA), a mother raccoon and three kits were heard living in a tiny space between two buildings. I set up a motion sensing camera trap on the sidewalk to photograph the moment the mother raccoon was exiting to find food for the night. Raccoons and extremely savvy sourcing places to raise kits even in urban San Francisco.
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Cities Gone Wild
Cities Gone Wild is an exploration of three savvy animals: black bears, coyotes and raccoons. Each of these urban carnivores are uniquely equipped to survive and even thrive in the human built landscape at a time when urbanization is decimating habitat for less adapted wildlife. I tracked these three carnivores in cities across the United States, to reveal how they are using our infrastructure and resources to carve out a unique place in society that might help them survive an uncertain future. Published in the July, 2022 issue of National Geographic Magazine
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