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Squirrels are smart and athletic, which might make them an annoyance. Here’s how to handle squirrel conflicts with kindness when they get in your house.

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

Using a live trap to move an animal elsewhere may seem a humane option, but capturing and relocating wild animals such as squirrels can be a death sentence for them and any babies they leave behind.

This season, combine gutter cleaning with inspections of your roof, attic, chimney and siding to keep wildlife from moving into your house.

How to tell if baby wild animals are hurt, abandoned by their parents or perfectly fine, as well as what to do if they need your help.

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

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.

How wildlife comforts us in times of grief

I was at the South Florida Wildlife Center yesterday when workers there released six pelicans back into the wild.

Growing native edibles increases food security for all.

Being trapped and relocated is one nightmare that is a common reality for many backyard creatures. One minute they’re going about the business of survival, and the next, without warning, they’re whisked away from the only home they’ve ever known.

WASHINGTON—As spring approaches and homeowners begin their seasonal cleaning, wildlife is preparing for the arrival of their young. This is a busy time of year for wild animals like raccoons and squirrels, as they mate and seek places to den and nest. 

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.

By transitioning your yard from grass to viable habitat, you can help wild animals come in for a soft landing.

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.

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.

It can be as simple as putting out a dish of clean water.

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.

Illinois is among the worst states when it comes to wildlife killing contests, with roughly 30 of these bloody events taking place each year that result in the cumulative deaths of thousands of coyotes, raccoons, foxes, squirrels and other animals. Following our 2023 investigation into a wildlife killing contest in Mendon, Illinois, this year the Illinois House of Representatives passed legislation (HB 2900) to prohibit the competitions. We’re now urging the Senate to do the same.