All Animals magazine

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

By catering to caterpillars, you can create a butterfly garden.

What you don’t know can hurt birds. Planting bird food is a natural alternative to purchasing sunflower seed and other commercial crops where lethal wildlife control has sometimes been used to protect harvests.

A microcosm of our contradictory relationships with animals, human-squirrel interactions have long been shortsighted. Although a common animal, squirrels live an uncommon life.

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.

Tips for engaging kids in nature outside your door.