Unruly Natures Fieldnotes

The Unruly Natures research project has been running since 2022 in Cape Town, studying a complex but increasingly common challenge: urban wildlife. This research film explains why this is an important sustainability challenge for both scientists and conservationists, presents the research goals and methods of the project, and some preliminary findings. It also shows how the research team collaborated with South African theatre company Empatheatre to create the play ‘Unruly,’ which toured the Cape Peninsula twice as part of the research and to create spaces for dialogue around an otherwise divisive issue.