“…Protecting and caring for nature has been a fundamental aspect of local and Indigenous cultures for tens of thousands of years and has more recently become a sustainability goal of cities around the world. The tremendous range of spiritual, cultural, social and ecological benefits provided by nature, together with the recognition of how colonial settlements and other types of unbridled urban growth have alienated and stunted nature's agency to thrive in cities, are generating a renewed awareness of the meaning and significance of conserving every aspect of urban nature—from safeguarding clean air, water and soil to maintaining the complexity of city‐wide metanetworks of interacting species (Cox et al, 2017; Davydova, 2005; Dearborn & Kark, 2010; Hartig & Kahn, 2016; Kumar & Hundal, 2016; Maller, Mumaw, & Cooke, 2018; McDonnell & MacGregor‐Fors, 2016; Nowak & Heisler, 2010). Not surprisingly, a wide array of theoretical and empirical research has focused on how best to manage existing nature in urban environments to maximize positive outcomes both for people (Dadvand et al, 2015; Flies et al, 2017; Hartig, Mitchell, Vries, & Frumkin, 2014; Keniger, Gaston, Irvine, & Fuller, 2013) and other species (Aronson et al, 2017; Baldock et al, 2019; Beninde, Veith, & Hochkirch, 2015; Lepczyk et al, 2017; Mata et al, 2017; Ossola & Niemelä, 2017; Parris et al, 2018; Soanes et al, 2019; Threlfall et al, 2017).…”