The University of British Columbia Urban Wildlife Project (UBC UWP) aims to gain a comprehensive understanding of how wildlife are adapting to urban areas and what role cognition plays in the ability of wildlife to survive, and even thrive, in human-dominated environments. The UBC UWP will achieve this goal by pursuing four main objectives: 1) quantifying the harshness and complexity of urban environments for wildlife, 2) quantifying how wildlife species use urban spaces and how living in urban environments is altering the behavior, ecology, and health of urban wildlife, 3) assessing the cognitive abilities of individual wild animals in urban spaces and determining how cognition may be enabling these individuals to utilize novel resources in urban environments, and 4) reducing human-wildlife conflict in urban habitats by investigating which animals are most likely to become involved in human-wildlife conflict and using those data to recommend targeted evidence-based conflict mitigation strategies.