All Animals magazine

If you have a full-time job and also attempt to be a good friend, partner, parent and pet owner, you might assume that adding volunteering to the mix would make you feel more stressed. But volunteering for animal shelters, rescues and nonprofits actually improves your mental and physical health.

Following one former lab worker's path to advocacy.

Rescuers with Humane Society International saved more than 150 dogs from a dog meat farm in South Korea. Now, the team helps to prepare these pups for new lives in loving homes.

Living alongside deer for decades, I’ve learned that gardens can thrive in their presence—to the point where our habitat now hosts uncommon butterflies, drawn to plants the deer leave untouched.

A puppy mill raid keeps a mother and her puppies alive.

Many factors drive fluctuating wildlife populations. Some are distinctly manmade, as when mosquito spraying in Fargo, North Dakota, killed migrating monarchs in August. But others are part of the natural cycle.