All Animals magazine

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.