Which iconic winter animal are you? 👀
It’s cold outside! Some go into hibernation, while others change their coats and rough it out in the icy weather. Answer seven questions to find out which iconic winter animal you are. ❄️
Take the quiz 📲: https://ow.ly/3MZW50Vc4Um
The Countdown to Spring Starts Now 📅❄️
In saying so, we are going to honor winter. Join us as we explore seven of the miraculous ways in which life endures, thrives, and even flourishes amidst the frosty challenges of winter. 📚⏬
Learn more 📲: https://ow.ly/UJ7250Vc2z1
By creating a monarch-friendly garden, you are directly helping to conserve monarch butterfly populations. That's just one of the many ways you can protect monarchs! 🦋
Read more ways to save monarchs in English & Spanish 📲 https://ow.ly/PxBE50Yna5E
#monarch #MonarchButterflies #MonarchConservation
Ready to hike the White Mountains? #NewHampshire
State animal: White-tailed deer 🦌
State flower: Purple lilac 🪻
Check out our New Hampshire affiliate at http://nhaudubon.org
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🦌| FWC Fish & Wildlife
Congratulations to Chamblee, GA, for becoming 2025 Monarch Champions! 🦋This is the highest designation awarded by the #MayorsMonarchPledge program for communities that complete 24 of the 30 conservation actions.
More📲 https://ow.ly/FMJt50Ypn9z
What do you see in this photo? 👀
Maybe “rays emanating from a distant planet, waves crashing against a cliff or deep furrows in a desert scene,” as the Phoenix-based Rumpf suggests? Think smaller.
🥇 First Place | Landscapes & Plants
📸 J. Fritz Rumpf
2025 NWPC Winners 📲: https://ow.ly/Ynpy50Ynf2g
Great Gray Owls Use Roads in Yosemite at Their Peril 🦉⛰️ 🚗
New research in Yosemite National Park aims to help prevent collisions between vehicles and rare great gray owls. Want to learn more?
Read the National Wildlife Magazine Winter 2026 Issue 📲: https://ow.ly/XsJH50Yngew
💰 Receive up to $8,500 for your campus wildlife project!
Apply to the 2026 Wild Kingdom Grant Program by 3/13🔗https://www.nwf.org/EcoLeaders/Get-Involved/Protect-Wildlife-on-Campus
Last year's projects 📲 https://blog.nwf.org/2026/02/colleges-universities-protect-vulnerable-endangered-species/
Today is #WorldWildlifeDay 🐻🦊🦢🦌
What is your favorite animal (and why is it a raccoon)? 👀
Our team of raccoons approved this message 💻🦝
#wildlife #nature #babyanimals #worldwildlifeday
A cement plant in Indiana is capturing climate-altering carbon pollution to safely store it deep underground. Despite losing their federal grant last year, the company continues the work.
More📲 https://blog.nwf.org/2026/02/defunding-the-future-plan-to-lower-emissions-loses-federal-support/
Lack of transparency, economic impacts, and public health concerns ❗These were the points of discussion at the Clean Economy Coalition of Color's latest roundtable on #DataCenters.
More from key community leaders 📲 https://ow.ly/iQmp50Yn3yy
#AIDataCenters
#Maine, the pine tree state 🌲
State animal: Moose 🫎
State butterfly: Pink-edged sulphur 🦋
Check out our Maine affiliate at http://www.nrcm.org
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🫎| NPS
🦋| Mike Boone
For 7 years, NWF & our partners at The Links Incorporated have been working together on our “WildSTEM” partnership. We lean into service learning through local projects that strengthen pipelines into STEM & green careers for Black & brown youth.
📲 https://blog.nwf.org/2026/02/wildstem-is-blooming/
Today is #InternationalPolarBearDay 🐻❄️❄️
Did you know polar bears are considered marine mammals and can only be found in the Arctic? Check out NWF’s "Polar Bear Fun" guide for kids and families to learn more. ⏬
Download the guide 📲: https://ow.ly/bAQa50Ym2TY
How can we help lessen the impacts of invasive animals? By eating them, according to foodie activists. Creating demand for problem species as sought-after food can subsidize their eradication. 🍽️
Read the National Wildlife Magazine Winter 2026 Issue 📲: https://ow.ly/5bqJ50Ym2am
Since 2019 NWF has been partnering with The Links Incorporated to deliver on our "WildSTEM" partnership that strengthens pipelines into green & STEM careers for Black & brown youth. To round out our #BlackHistoryMonth celebrations, check out our blog https://blog.nwf.org/2026/02/wildstem-is-winning/
Air travel is a major source of climate-harming pollution. New technologies in sustainable aviation fuels are opening up a future where we continue to benefit from air travel with a much smaller impact on the climate.
Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuNdmmKUS5g
Black environmental leaders have contributed so much to the movement to make our communities healthier, safer, and more sustainable.
Learn more about some of the Black environmental leaders at NWF and the stories that have touched their hearts📲 https://ow.ly/bZ8r50YiibH
Let's go candlepin bowling! 🎳 #Massachusetts
State bird: Chickadee 🐦
State flower: Mayflower 🌼
Check out our Massachusetts affiliate at http://www.environmentalleague.org
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🐦| Linda Roy Walls
🌼| Judy Gallagher
3 lessons learned while working w/communities to become healthier, sustainable, & more wildlife-friendly:
🌱People will show up to create community habitats
🌱Healthy habitats & healthy communities go hand in hand
🌱Your work can & WILL inspire others
📲https://ow.ly/KyAI50YfbxR
Have you entered the 2026 National Wildlife Photo Contest? 👀
We welcome submissions in nine categories ⏬
🐦 Birds
🦦 Mammals
🐣 Baby Animals
🐊 Other Wildlife
🪴Landscapes & Plants
🧗 People in Nature
📱 Mobile
👩🎓Young Nature Photographers
💻 Portfolio
Learn more or enter today 📲: https://ow.ly/MVQw50YhlHW
Each winter, up to 32 million tons of salt are spread across roads, sidewalks, and parking lots in the U.S.—more than the total biomass of land mammals on Earth—to melt ice. 🧊
Want to learn about smart salting practices that can help protect wildlife? Read the blog 📲: https://ow.ly/jUtp50YhORg
🚨 We Need Your Vote For This Year’s Calendar Cover! 🚨
It’s not easy to pick favorites when it comes to wildlife, and that’s why we need your help! 🗓️
Who are you voting for? 👀
🐻❄️ Polar Bear Cubs
🐊 Alligator
🦋 Monarch Butterfly
🦅 Bald Eagle
Voting ends on February 19th 📲: https://ow.ly/iEX750YhkRH
As AI expands and data centers appear, a mismatch between energy demand and the aging transmission grid is rising. How will electricity be transported over long distances from its source to the final destination? The energy grid is feeling the pressure.
Listen/read more 📲 https://ow.ly/csQO50Yfb1N
Join NWF's Environmental Justice, Health, and Community Resilience and Revitalization program February 19th! We'll discuss the current policy landscape for data center developments and potential avenues for stronger public health protections.
RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/nwf/event/896288/
Would you love us if we were a worm? 💕🪱
This Valentine’s Day, don’t forget about the humble earthworm (and all of the flowers they help grow by improving the soil). Take a deep dive and learn how they find their soilmate! 🌹💘
Read the blog 📲: https://ow.ly/Lg4T50UV99H
Need a last-minute Valentine's card? 💌
Whether you're loved like no otter or simply a gift to humanatee, share our Valentine's cards with owl your loved ones. We promise they will bear-ly bee-lieve it! 🦦🐻🐝🦉
🚨The EPA has repealed the #EndangermentFinding, 2009 determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health & contribute to climate change. This undermines our ability to protect the health of people & wildlife. https://blog.nwf.org/2025/07/deregulation-wont-protect-us-from-climate-change/
📸 Gary Eslinger/USFWS
Did your grandmother sew you a soft and fluffy quilt when you were younger? That's great; however, porcupines have up to 30,000 barbed quills. Quilts and quills are quite different. Their quills are neither soft nor fluffy (even if they seem friend-shaped).
📸 Gary Eslinger/USFWS
Two women on FWC's Fish and Wildlife Health and Harmful Algal Bloom team are responding to a spinning fish event in the Lower Keys. Credit: FWC/Flickr
Dollie Burwell
Dr. Wangari Maathai
Lisa Perez Jackson
It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
We're honoring all the women & girls for their contributions. For #BlackHistoryMonth, we've highlighted four outstanding Black women who moved the needle on land & wildlife conservation.
Read the blog 📲: https://ow.ly/lnFT50UX3Nh
