Pheasants, deer and other wildlife need habitat; farms can help
A bill in Congress would fund private landowners to enhance their land for wildlife and increase access for hunters and anglers.
Wildlife & wild places
Can you imagine a world filled with more wildlife and wild places? So can we. And we’re working together to make it happen.
Every minute, we’re losing two football fields worth of wild lands, and too many animal species face extinction. It’s up to us to turn things around. We imagine an America with more mountaintops where all we see is forests below, with more rivers that flow wild and free, more shoreline where all we hear are waves. An America with abundant wildlife, from butterflies and bees floating lazily in your backyard, to the howl of a coyote in the distance, to the breach of a whale just visible from the shore. Together, we can work toward this better future.
The Latest on Wildlife & wild places
What happens to fish (and humans) when fish eat plastic?
Wildlife crossings save lives
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Florida manatees deserve strong protections
We’re wild about wetland wildlife
More people visited national parks last year than ever before
Featured Resources
Reconnecting Nature
The Great American Outdoors Act
Journey Through the Tongass
Wetland wildlife coloring pages
As a lifelong outdoor adventurer, I am always looking for ways I can give back to our environment and encourage others to care for nature.Kamebry Wagner, Environment Illinois Conservation Intern
I want to inspire others to protect our planet
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Why did the toad cross the road?
A UK road closure helps traveling toad populations
Environment Illinois 2025 Program Agenda
With our supporters, Environment Illinois is celebrating nature and sharing a vision of an Illinois with clean water and air, more clean energy, healthy wildlife and more habitat that wildlife need to thrive.
Whales’ baleen holds clues about the species’ reaction to whaling
A forgotton collection of baleen helped Smithsonian scientist discover evidence of the stress caused by a resumption of whaling.
A new, important wildlife corridors bill
Saving America’s wildlife requires us to understand the migrations and daily patterns of animals and to limit the damage caused by roads, fences and buildings.
A significant conversation about wildlife conservation
Gov. Doug Burgum, nominee for Secretary of the Interior, discussed wildlife conservation. See the positive exchange.