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Help Bugs—and Birds—By Growing Native Plants
Like most environmentally-friendly gardeners, I’ve long known that it’s better to cultivate native than nonnative plants. Adapted to local conditions, natives thrive better—and with less water and other expensive inputs such as fertilizer—than do most exotics. Natives also are less… Read more >
40 Nuts Nibbled by Squirrels
Photo #2 from our 40 garden objects series for Garden for Wildlife Month Read more >
Photo of the Day: Beak Wide Open
Common tern chick ready and waiting for food Photo by Lisa Franceski Check out more nature and wildlife photos, vote for your favorites and enter your own images in the 43rd Annual National Wildlife Photo Contest. Read more >
Birds, Butterflies and Backyard Discoveries: New Book Offers Tips for Wildlife Gardening with Kids
Touch a Butterfly, by April Pulley Sayre, is a delightful read. Its goal is to get families—kids included—outside and in touch with the natural world through gardening. But it is so much more than a guide. It’s a learning process,… Read more >
Wildlife Through a Lens: Focus on Birds
Spring is a prime season for bird photography, and we want you to feel inspired to grab your camera and snap some photos! We asked Christine Haines, one of our Flickr group members and a long-time National Wildlife Photo Contest entrant,… Read more >
40 Garden Tools
Share your photos of 40 garden objects during Garden for Wildlife month! Read more >
Today Show: Surprising “Backyard Wildlife”
It’s Garden for Wildlife Month! In honor of this annual celebration of National Wildlife Federation’s 40-year-old Certified Wildlife Habitat program, I brought some “backyard wildlife” on my Today Show segment this week. But these animals are definitely NOT the songbirds… Read more >
Photo of the Day: Snoozing Sea Lions
This Photo of the Day was donated by a participant in the annual National Wildlife Photo Contest. See more photos or sign up for the 43rd Annual National Wildlife Photo Contest. Read more >
NYC Eco-School PS 57 Gets 2013 Green Ribbon Schools Award
On a gloriously sunny Earth Day, cheers erupted in NYC Eco-School PS 57′s large outdoor garden as the Staten Island elementary school found out it had won a 2013 Green Ribbon Schools award. WNBC-TV was there to capture the excitement. Pre-kindergarteners jumped up… Read more >
