Urbanization is expanding rapidly worldwide and threatening biodiversity. In 2020, 56% of the world's population (4.4 billion people) lived in urban areas, with this number projected to increase to 68% (over 6 billion people) by 2050 (The World Bank, 2022; United Nations, 2018). Accordingly, urban areas will have to expand rapidly to accommodate these numbers, with much of this projected expansion occurring in Africa (United Nations, 2018). In urban areas, biodiversity faces many challenges such as habitat loss, fragmentation, human-wildlife conflicts, and pollution (Ditchkoff et al., 2006).Species in urban areas suffer fatalities such as road-kill (Kent et al., 2021), eradication as pests, exposure to chemicals and other pollutants (Ditchkoff et al., 2006), and predation by introduced
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