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Mason bees, mining bees, bumble bees and others whose services have produced fruits and seeds for millennia are at risk, dependent on ever-shrinking habitat to accommodate lifestyles that barely resemble those of their captive-raised cousins. Here's how you can help.

Learn how to support beneficial insects that pollinate plants in gardens, feed birds, help decompose organic matter, or eat parasites or other pests.

Every outdoor space, whether a transformed city plot or a suburban pocket prairie, matters to animals. Here’s how to reclaim land for wildlife well beyond your own backyard.

Changing the law of the land benefits animals, the environment and humans.

Through careful observation and humane gardening, it doesn’t take long to see that many animals shape homelands for creatures large and small, often in hidden ways.

Homegrown gardens can help prevent pollinator poisonings. Here are a few tips for success.

Growing native edibles increases food security for all.

By choosing native plants, you can help put your garden to work for wildlife.

The elements we all too often chop down, rake away, chase with leaf blowers, bag up to be hauled off like trash are homes for other species, not to mention restaurants, kitchens and nurseries. For so many animals, life begins in the decay.

Whether you have a patio, balcony or rooftop, you can create pocket habitats by thinking from other species’ perspectives. Here’s how.

Here are 13 ways you can turn your backyard into a habitat that supports wildlife.

For human beings, the end of summer can mean squeezing in a few last trips to the beach or mountains before school begins and the pace of work picks up.

Keep hummingbirds healthy with a balanced diet.

Making space for nature takes courage—here’s how to start.

From coast to coast, gardeners are putting down the power tools and letting nature take the lead.

Though they’re often celebrated as harbingers of spring and rebirth, commoditized tulips are too overbred to welcome pollinators and too prized as decorative possessions to be shared with larger wildlife. Trade garden-variety bulbs for wildlife-friendly plants.

You don’t have to break the bank to create a lovely backyard haven.

What we do (or don’t do) outside affects whether wildlife live to see another spring. This winter, use this checklist to cultivate a year-round home for your wild neighbors.

For many years, the modest stretch of forested land surrounding our office in Maryland has offered a refuge to wild animals whose habitat is shrinking around them.