{"id":800671,"date":"2026-07-14T05:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800671\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T05:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:29:11","slug":"whitby-continues-to-tackle-coyote-safety-with-upcoming-special-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800671\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitby continues to tackle coyote safety with upcoming special council meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/COYOTE-4-cO-PIXABAY.jpg\" title=\"Whitby continues to tackle coyote safety with upcoming special council meeting\"><img width=\"634\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/COYOTE-4-cO-PIXABAY.jpg\" class=\"left wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Town of Whitby has called a special council meeting due to the concerns about coyote activity in the area.<\/p>\n<p>No date has been set, but they\u2019re tentatively looking at July 20.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after an increase in reported coyote activity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/archives\/214576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Two children were also recently bitten in the town.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whitby Animal Services, along with Durham police, are monitoring coyote activity and increasing patrols where necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The town is adding more signage and staff have been directed to increase education about coyotes being amongst residents and what to do if you see one.<\/p>\n<p>Whitby already has an online coyote reporting tool and public coyote sightings dashboard <a href=\"https:\/\/geohub-whitby.hub.arcgis.com\/apps\/ffffe9fe38764c58b0975fa199b59608\/explore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Staff use the information to look for trends.<\/p>\n<p>An increase in coyote activity on the Railway Trail at Heber Downs Conservation Area has forced CLOCA to temporarily close a portion of it.<\/p>\n<p>Coyote safety has been added to the mayor\u2019s annual Community Safety Roundtable in August that brings together staff, police and school boards.<\/p>\n<p>At the special council meeting, town staff will provide an update on the \u2018Coyote Coexistence and Response Strategy,\u2019 and other community partners will speak.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to talk to the mayor about coyote safety she is asking residents to email her at mayor@whitby.ca<\/p>\n<p>There is more about coyote safety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitby.ca\/services-and-payments\/animal-services\/animal-control-and-wildlife\/#Coyotes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/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":"The Town of Whitby has called a special council meeting due to the concerns about coyote activity in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-800671","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\/800671","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=800671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}