Celebrate biodiversity, starting in your own backyard.

Celebrate biodiversity, starting in your own backyard.
Meet the 7 species of sea turtles!
3 March is World Wildlife Day! Find out how to celebrate this day and what you can do to take action for wild plants and animals.
February 18th 2023 is World Pangolin Day! Pangolins are awesome scaly mammals. There are 8 species of pangolins: 4 in Africa and 4 in Asia. But pangolins around the world are at risk of extinction. Pangolins are hunted in large numbers for their scales and…
Learn about the group of rodents called squirrels.
Learn about the beautiful African wild dog.
World Soil Day is 5 December Why is soil important? Without soil there would not be many ecosystems on land. Soil provides a home and food for plants. Soil is the base of terrestrial (land-based) food chains. Soil is home for many species of animals…
Learn about sea jellies, also known as jellyfish.
Mongabay Kids is celebrating all things lemur … Why? It’s the World Lemur Festival, leading up to World Lemur Day on October 28th, 2022. We’ve partnered with the Lemur Conservation Network to bring you the latest lemur-themed news and activities. The Lemur Conservation Network (LCN)…
October 18th is World Okapi Day! Okapis are awesome, beautifully patterned rainforest animals. They live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Did you know that they are relatives of the giraffe? Learn more about okapis here, in our series on the Fantastic Unfamous Cousins…
Thanks to National Moth Week and to Ken Childs and Juan Carlos García Morales for images.
Let’s appreciate frogs…because frogs are fabulous. There are at least 6000 different species of frogs that we know about. Let’s look at a few close up. Look at the interesting eyes of these frogs Look at the wide mouths of these frogs Notice the different…