By now you’ve probably heard the news: the monarch butterfly has been listed as an endangered species. The stunning butterfly species, once common across the United States and famous for … Read more
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Six Tips for Pollinator Gardens in Small Spaces
National Pollinator Week happens each year in June and we take it a step further by celebrating pollinators all month long! You can participate by creating a garden habitat to … Read more
The Monarchs Are Here!
Schools in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and Houston have been working with the National Wildlife Federation’s Monarch Heroes program to create monarch gardens on their school campuses that provide the … Read more
Twelve Native Milkweeds for Monarchs
Updated December 2021 The monarch butterfly population in North America has plummeted in just the last few decades. Destruction of America’s grasslands ecosystems, commercial agricultural practices and even conventional gardening have … Read more
The Best Wildlife and Nature Photos from NWF Staff in 2013
We’ve done a little looking back at 2013 already—see this piece about our 2013 accomplishments, and this one about the most popular Facebook photos of the year—but we also wanted … Read more
