{"id":817366,"date":"2026-07-21T23:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/817366\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T23:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:26:12","slug":"whitby-updating-coyote-reporting-tool-following-special-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/817366\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitby updating coyote reporting tool following special 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 updating coyote reporting tool following special 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>Data from the Town of Whitby shows hundreds of coyote sightings.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last year, there have been 546 reported sightings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/archives\/214576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">along with two bites<\/a> and two interactions with pets.<\/p>\n<p>Council held an education session on Monday and planned their next steps to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Elizabeth Roy says Whitby has \u201cstrong\u201d monitoring tools, including a public dashboard and online reporting system.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have also developed a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitby.ca\/media\/uaum5wir\/tow-coyote-coexistence-and-response-strategy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Coexistence and Response Strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor says next steps include updating their reporting tool to let residents submit more info.<\/p>\n<p>The town is also partnering with Coyote Watch Canada to conduct inspections and implement mitigation measures, in areas with a high number of sightings.<\/p>\n<p>Staff will be hosting a public open house in August, to answer questions and help educate residents.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re also going to schedule door-to-door visits in targeted neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about coyote safety or to check out the dashboard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitby.ca\/services-and-payments\/animal-services\/animal-control-and-wildlife\/#Coyotes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click 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":"Data from the Town of Whitby shows hundreds of coyote sightings. Over the last year, there have been&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-817366","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\/817366","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=817366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817366\/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=817366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}