I wasn't thinking that city people are respecters of nature or rural people hate nature. It's more a consequence of what kind of activities take place in cities vs. rural areas.

For instance, rural raccoons are far more likely than city raccoons to have people in their territory that are keeping chickens for meat and/or eggs. This gives rural raccoons an opportunity to do more damage than their city cousins, and so also increases the chances they will draw a severe response.

Rural people also have more options for lethal force. Raccoons have been bothering your chickens? Go out the next night with your shotgun and blow the raccoons away. Try that in a city to deal with a raccoon trying to get into your recycle bin and you are likely to soon have far bigger problems than the raccoons.

Cities are also more likely to require permits or licenses to kill or trap an animal.