pauly: there's no magic line where natuopsrstnd city it's all a giant matrix. and in the most urbanized parts of los angeles, you can still find literally thousands of species of plplants and animals. heise: the conventional wisdom used to be that cities are biodiversity wastelands, and we're now beginning to rethink that in two major ways. one is that actually, there's a lot of biodiversitycititi, muchch more so than n we had originally known. the other challenge is tonk aboi this environment that was built by us in terms of buildings, in terms of the parks that we've planted, in terms of the gardens that some of us take care of on. how could we make this habitat more hospitable to non-human species? te byoks] [barks] paulow areas is an area of research that people are really just starting to get serious about studying. things like coyotes and mountain lions and bobcats, species that we may not always think about as being city dwellers but, in fact, with a little bit of research, you realize are actually part of the story of a big cityty like los angeles. heise