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Myths abound about skunks, but these animals are gardeners’ friends.

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.

How familiar are we, really, with what lies below, let alone who eats, sleeps and breeds there? Instead of traveling afar for a sense of place in the universe, what if we paid more attention to what’s right underfoot?

Even if you’re part of a homeowner association, a wildlife-friendly garden is possible.

By choosing native plants, you can help put your garden to work for wildlife.

Tips for engaging kids in nature outside your door.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Whether you have a patio, balcony or rooftop, you can create pocket habitats by thinking from other species’ perspectives. Here’s how.

How wildlife comforts us in times of grief

Looking for an animal-friendly winter wonderland? Escape to this magical Washington town

Less than a month after she first learned to go on leash, a brindle-and-white dog named Cameo completed a turn around the inside of a Maryland care and rehabilitation center and, keeping pace with her handler, moved calmly back into her kennel.

Maggie Shaarawi was at home in Beirut, Lebanon, with pneumonia one March night when she received a video from a concerned animal lover.

Praveen Suresh had never seen such destruction. Heavy rains battered the Wayanad district of the state of Kerala in southwest India during the last week of July.

When Gail Strickler and her husband, Bill Jasper, decided to get a dog soon after they married, there was no question in Strickler’s mind that their new companion would be a r