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Millions of animals die in the road. How can we help?

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.

Studies are beginning to show why it might be best to turn down the volume.

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.

Coexisting with these shy plant-eaters is easier than you think.

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.

Prune trees carefully to avoid harming wild families. Given the chance, wild parents often carry displaced babies to alternate nests. But countless animals never have that opportunity.

Edited by Harrison and fellow photographer Kim Nagy, Dead in Good Company offers an intimate view of Mount Auburn, weaving tales of lives ended with stories of those just beginning.

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.

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

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.

Right whales are dying as advocates race to remove fishing ropes from the water.

Little mammals play a big role in healthy gardens.

Rescued on a freezing February day, Elsa, a juvenile tiger, finds a home and healing at Black Beauty Ranch.

Many people are drawn to animal attractions out of a love for animals but end up inadvertently supporting cruelty. Here's how to avoid exploitative wildlife attractions.

Here's how you can help bats, your friendly neighborhood night-flyers.

Humane Society for the United States employees step up to foster and adopt Pennsylvania cats in need of a home after rescue.

Dog meat farm survivors (slowly) learn life skills on the road to adoption

Small actions can add up to big progress for animals. By pushing for change within your community, you can help build a more humane society for all of us.

Culling abundant deer populations is controversial and often ineffective. The HSUS is helping create humane alternatives.