Do you want to help victims of the Gulf Coast oil spill? Here are a few ideas from the article, ”Heroes needed: How to help the victims of the Gulf Coast oil spill“, in USA Today:
The National Audubon Society is recruiting volunteers to be trained to respond to the oil spill.
Save Our Seabirds is a Florida [...]
A new survey has me worried about the future of our environment. Ten times more children around the world rank watching television and playing video games as more important to them than saving the environment, according to the survey.
It’s now more important than ever that Carl and Jean continue to use their award-winning children’s books [...]
The article, “Bird rescuers race to save oiled wildlife in Gulf oil spill“, refers to wildlife affected by the BP oil spill as “silent victims”. I could not agree more.
According to the article, it can take four people working 45 minutes and using 300 gallons of water to clean a single pelican. When the birds [...]
The North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro is now our nation’s largest. The zoo expanded to more than 2,000 acres with the acquisition of 322 acres of Randolph County forestland.
“The zoo is excited to protect this biologically significant land for educational and trail purposes and thanks the N.C. Natural Heritage Trust Fund, PLC and the Wards for [...]
Celebrate National Wildlife Week March 15-21 and get children outside. The National Wildlife Federation offers a number of outdoor activities for children.
If you are a teacher, look over our Lost in the Wood and Stranger in the Woods Curriculum Guides. Each guide contains 54 fun-filled activity pages plus 12 additional “project cards” with great ideas for bringing [...]
Have you ever wondered why there are so many squirrels in your yard?
Milena Shattuck and Scott Williams, doctoral candidates in anthropology, have found that tree-dwelling mammals live longer than those who live on the ground. Humans are an exception, but tree-dwelling ancestors may explain that.
View the article, “Tree-dwelling mammals climb to the heights of longevity“, [...]
Laura Sams and Robert Sams, authors of our book A Pirate’s Quest, and directors of our DVD movie The Riddle in a Bottle, enjoy sharing their talents through author visits and live performances each year. You can watch their wonderful presentation in Dubai in the video above.
They have performed at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural [...]
Our art director, Karen McDiarmid, is keeping a mouse-keeper’s journal to write about her work with the mice featured in our upcoming new movie, First Snow in the Woods: The Movie, based on our award-winning children’s book First Snow in the Woods.
Karen is sharing her entries with us. Here’s part of the first one, dated [...]
Meet Milton, a desert tortoise, and learn some interesting and helpful desert tortoise facts by watching the video.
It’s time to get kids outside.
A new study, “DAILY MEDIA USE AMONG CHILDREN AND TEENS UP DRAMATICALLY FROM FIVE YEARS AGO”, from the Kaiser Family Foundation states that most youth say they have no rules about how much time they can spend with TV, video games, or computers.
Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of [...]
