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Outdoor Kids: A Family Garden
To me, a family garden is an outdoor landscape (if even a balcony, windowsill or community park or school garden) that has something for everyone in your family, and a space you take care of together throughout the year: planting,… Read more >
Outdoor Kids: Digging
Whether you’re searching for sand crabs, or planting a flower, digging is a great way to explore the outdoors. Read more >
350 New Plant and Wildlife Species Discovered In The Himalayan Region
A decade of surveying in the Himalayas has brought some wonderful surprises to the wildlife and nature conservation world. Xinhuanet.com reports: “Over 350 new species, including the world’s smallest deer, a ‘flying frog’ and a 100-million-year old gecko have been… Read more >
Nearly Extinct Frog Is Rediscovered
It is always god news for wildlife lovers to learn that a lost species is not lost at all. Inland News.com “For the first time in nearly 50 years, a population of a nearly extinct frog has been rediscovered in… Read more >
Week One: Let’s Go Outside!
Jennifer Ward, author of Let’s Go Outside, tells us how to make a “toad castle.” Read more >
Prison Inmates Raise Endangered Frogs With Greater Success Than Experts!
Two prison inmates in Washington State have discovered they have an extraordinary knack for endangered species TLC. Jennifer Sullivan from the Seattle Times reports: Since spring, Greer and fellow inmate Albert Delp have spent the bulk of their days inside… Read more >
Dave Mizejewski to Talk Bullfrogs, Bats and Backyard Campout on Tuesday’s Today Show
UPDATE 6/23: Watch David’s appearance here! NWF naturalist David Mizejewski will be making a live appearance on the Today Show tomorrow morning (June 23rd) to promote the Great American Backyard Campout, happening in backyards across the country this weekend, June… Read more >
Wildlife Adoption
I was feeling down after my last post about the extinction of the Caribbean monk seal, only to get a notification a few minutes later about NWF’s new wildlife adoption program. Here’s how it works. It’s a symbolic adoption, meaning that… Read more >
Leap Year Frog Blog! Frog Facts, Martha Stewart and More
NWF naturalist Dave Mizejewski made a special “Leap Day” appearance on The Martha Stewart Show this morning, bringing along a few camera-hoppy amphibians, including green frogs, American toads, a pickerel frog and a smoky jungle frog. Watch Martha and Dave… Read more >
Humans and their Animal Phobias
Phobias are no joke. But they can be interesting. I tend to be an abnormal case simply because I like (and in some cases love) the animals that cause most phobias. So when I see a long list of strange… Read more >
