WILDLIFE PROFESSIONAL: Bridging the Gap: Integrating Landscape Architects in Wildlife Conservation

“Landscape Architects design elements of the built environment, such as backyards, streetscapes, parks and green roofs. Because many problems faced by wildlife are spatially and environmentally based, landscape architects can help address them. Working together with ecologists, biologists and land managers, landscape architects can use their design training in spatial thinking and visual communication to integrate scientific research and concepts into the built world. Although we cannot overlook that the built world has had negative consequences for wildlife, including habitat fragmentation from fences (Collinge 1996), more attention is being given to wildlife-friendly designs, such as preventing human-deer conflicts through community-level habitat planning (Gorham and Porter 2011).

Duquette, Jared, Lauren Mathias, and Conor O’Shea, “Bridging the Gap: Integrating Landscape Architects in Wildlife Conservation,” The Wildlife Professional, vol. 3 (2021): 51-54.