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| The HSUS |
| Humane backyards offer safe sanctuary to all visitors. |
The Humane Backyard is about creating healthy, green outdoor spaces that are safe and hospitable for people, pets, wildlife, and the environment.
It's about creating, protecting and enhancing your outdoor areas to make them more animal- and eco-friendly.
Maintaining your garden or landscape to make it more sustainable to wildlife, wildlife habitat, and the environment is not as hard as it may seem.
A few rules and a willingness to share resources add up to green spaces we can all enjoy—not only for their natural beauty but for their contribution to more diverse and vibrant ecosystems.
Whether you have a container garden, a suburban yard, or a community garden, humane choices will make this area safer, healthier and more enjoyable for those you would like to invite in—as well as for those you wish to keep away.
Backyard Basics:
Sanctuary in the City
Gardens and Wildlife: Making Everybody Happy
Resources for Building Your Green Roof
Humane Lawn & Garden Care:
So Long, Lawn!
Brush Piles 101
Flowers & Plants:
Wildflowers Video
Advice for Pets:
Common Poisonous Plants
Your Cat—Indoors or Out
If You Love Wildlife, Keep Your Cat Inside
Advice for Wild Animals:
Birds
Hummingbirds in Your Backyard
The Mysteries of Migration
Helping Migratory Birds
Butterflies
Butterfly Video
Butterflies in Our Midst
Wildlife Feeding Advice:
Trash & Wildlife
Don't Trash Wildlife
To Feed or Not to Feed Wildlife
A major factor in keeping wildlife wild (and therefore more comfortable in their "yards" than ours) is to remove (or not provide) them with food. (Birds are another story.) The consequences for the animals are dire.
To Feed or Not to Feed
Feeding Hummingbirds
Feeding Birds in Winter
Living in Harmony:
A few precautions, knowing the rules, and a willingness to share helps strike a good balance with wildlife in our midst. Here's how one man adapted to living with wildlife in the suburbs.
Gardens and Wildlife: Making Everybody Happy
Found an Injured or Orphaned Animal?
Found a baby bird, rabbit, squirrel, raccoon, deer, or other wildlife young? How to tell if the animal needs your help or should be left alone.
Top 10 Wildlife Myths
Setting the record straight on popular wildlife myths.
Seasonal Advice:
13 Simple Ways to Make Springtime Living Humane
Summer's End: Helping Wildlife Survive the Cold Winter
Winterize with Wildlife in Mind
