{"id":788637,"date":"2026-07-08T17:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788637\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:06:22","slug":"trail-at-whitby-conservation-area-closed-due-to-coyote-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788637\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail at Whitby conservation area closed due to coyote activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WHITBY-TRAIL-CLOSURE-co-CLOCA-FACEBOOK.jpg\" title=\"Trail at Whitby conservation area closed due to coyote activity\"><img width=\"634\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WHITBY-TRAIL-CLOSURE-co-CLOCA-FACEBOOK.jpg\" class=\"left wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A rise in coyote activity is prompting officials to temporarily close a trail at Heber Down Conservation Area in Whitby.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority (CLOCA) announced on Facebook the Railway Trail is closed for now.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re encouraging you to enjoy the other trails in the area and follow coyote safety tips.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after a two-year-old child was bitten on the face by one of the animals at Vanier Park in Whitby on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of CLOCA on Facebook<\/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":"A rise in coyote activity is prompting officials to temporarily close a trail at Heber Down Conservation Area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-788637","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\/788637","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=788637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}