{"id":761901,"date":"2026-06-26T06:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761901\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:27:12","slug":"child-injured-by-coyote-in-whitby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761901\/","title":{"rendered":"Child injured by coyote in Whitby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whitby-town-hall-spring-2016.jpg\" title=\"Child injured by coyote in Whitby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"634\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/whitby-town-hall-spring-2016-634x312.jpg\" class=\"left wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Whitby\u2019s mayor is speaking out after a young child was recently injured by a coyote.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Elizabeth Roy says she was concerned when she heard about the incident. She didn\u2019t share the details, but said her thoughts are with the child and their family. She also wished the child a full and quick recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Roy went on to share she\u2019s already added coyote safety to the agenda for the next Community Safety Roundtable, which brings together Durham police, town staff, school boards and other partners to tackle important safety issues.<\/p>\n<p>She says Whitby already has a strong coyote monitoring mechanism. The town has an online reporting tool and a public coyote sightings dashboard that residents use a lot and provide information that helps town staff monitor activity and respond appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>Roy says there\u2019s always room to build on what\u2019s working and the upcoming roundtable will be an opportunity to collaborate on additional measures.<\/p>\n<p>You can report a coyote sighting <a href=\"https:\/\/survey123.arcgis.com\/share\/c25cdb9b80b44104b95b5752918be8f8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To see the coyote sightings dashboard, click <a href=\"https:\/\/geohub-whitby.hub.arcgis.com\/apps\/ffffe9fe38764c58b0975fa199b59608\/explore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/archives\/214128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Durham police recently issued a coyote safety reminders after some recent incidents.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mistape.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"mistape-link mistape-logo\"><\/p>\n<p>If you have found a spelling error, please, notify us by selecting that text and pressing Ctrl+Enter.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/archives\/javascript:history.go(-1)\" class=\"button\" onmouseover=\"self.status=document.referrer;return true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Go Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whitby\u2019s mayor is speaking out after a young child was recently injured by a coyote. Mayor Elizabeth Roy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-761901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}