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New Jersey prepares to open a gruesome black bear trophy hunt
New Jersey is poised to allow trophy hunters to kill the state’s beloved black bears starting next month using barbaric methods like baiting the animals with piles of rotting sugary food.
Inside a special project at our chimp sanctuary in Africa
Over the course of a few years, we will be working on island improvements to better hep the chimps at our sanctuary in Africa. These are the first six to enjoy the villa while their island is being upgraded.
Wild by design
Homeowners usually focus more on readying properties for resale than nurturing a home for other species. Research reveals that even when people want to garden ecologically, the desire to match the Joneses’ sterile turfgrass yard is a more powerful draw. Here's how to garden for wildlife without upsetting your neighbors.
How to make your yard family-friendly
Decaying logs and miniature bogs, hollowed stalks and piled rocks, nutritious pollen and leaves fallen: They’re not the stuff of traditional nursery rhymes and baby showers. But if wild mothers-to-be had gift registries, these natural supplies would top the list.
Finding solace in nature
How wildlife comforts us in times of grief
Grounded and surrounded
By transitioning your yard from grass to viable habitat, you can help wild animals come in for a soft landing.
How to protect vegetable or flower gardens from animals
Some animals are essential for any garden to help pollinate plants and aerate the soil, but here is how you can prevent others from nibbling on your crops.
A native garden plan for pollinators
Recreate our colorful Black Beauty Ranch welcome center garden with this preplanned design.
Consider lawn alternatives to support wildlife
Shrink your lawn to balance family fun with a wildlife habitat. You'll be supporting nature and reducing the use and extra expense of water, fossil fuels, and chemicals.
What are we so afraid of?
Instead of awe and wonder, fear is our default reaction to wildlife near our home, often leading to trapping, poisoning, or, in the case of small creatures, the angry stomp of a shoe. Here's why we should challenge our misguided assumptions about wildlife.
Eight reasons to eat plant-based and save water for World Water Day 2019
WASHINGTON – For World Water Day on 22 March, Humane Society International is urging consumers to eat a more plant-based diet to help combat the significant contribution to water scarcity across the world.
Backyard book list
From natural histories of misunderstood species to stories of interconnectedness, the following selections will help you (and, in some cases, your children and grandchildren) think differently about wildlife in your own neighborhood and beyond.
Sharing the bounty
Unfortunately, homeowners’ responses to wild nibblers often involve poisons and traps. But you can have your veggies—and your flowers and trees—and let the wildlife eat some, too, by following these methods.
Deer eat my garden—and it flourishes
Living alongside deer for decades, I’ve learned that gardens can thrive in their presence—to the point where our habitat now hosts uncommon butterflies, drawn to plants the deer leave untouched.
Birdsong, interrupted
The loud low-frequency noise of landscaping machinery travels far and drowns out a proven natural benefit to our mental health: birdsong.
Should we let nature feed the birds?
Though many of us consider bird feeding a benign way to connect with nature, it often exacerbates an already pervasive cultural bias that favors birds over practically any other animal who visits the buffet.