From Hot To Cold

Alaska 4 Alaska is the northern most state of the USA, next to Canada Washington Oregon Nevada Utah Id ah o C a l i f ornia Arizona M ontana Wyoming Colorado Texas New Mexico N South Dakota North Dakota TO COLD FROM HOT DID YOU KNOW? SOME NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES ONCE LIVED IN THE UK. OVER 1,000 YEARS AGO, BEARS AND GREY WOLVES LIVED IN BRITISH FORESTS BUT WERE HUNTED FROM FREEZING ARCTIC ICE FIELDS AND TOWERING ROCKY MOUNTAINS, TO SCORCHING DESERTS, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA* IS HOME TO WIDELY DIVERSE HABITATS AND SPECIES. 1 1 3 2 TO EXTINCTION.

TORTOISE DESERT

FOUND IN THE MOJAVE AND SONORAN DESERTS, THE THREATENED DESERT TORTOISE EATS HERBS, GRASSES, CACTI AND WILD FLOWERS. EFFORTS TO REWILD AREAS BY RESTORING ECOSYSTEMS HAVE SEEN SPECIES RETURN TO THE UK LIKE THE WHITE-TAILED EAGLE, WHICH HADN’T BEEN SEEN IN THE UK FOR OVER 100 YEARS. WILL WOLVES AND BEARS ROAM BRITAIN AGAIN ONE DAY?

IN SALTY MONO LAKE, CALIFORNIA, LIVE SMALL FLIES THAT CAN WALK UNDERWATER TO FIND FOOD AND LAY EGGS. THE ALKALI FLY CREATES AN AIR BUBBLE AROUND ITSELF SO IT CAN BREATHE.

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ALKALI FLIES

Texas Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska South Dakota North Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa Mi ouri Arkansas L ouisiana Mi i ippiAlabama Illinois Indiana Michigan Ohio Tenne eeKentucky WestVirginiaVirginia Georgia Florida SouthCarolina North Carolina Pennsylvania New York Delaware N ew J er se y Connecticut RhodeIsland Ma achusetts Vermont NewHampshire Maine M aryl a n d BISON, THE LARGEST LAND MAMMAL IN NORTH AMERICA AND ONE OF THE FEW LARGE MAMMALS TO SURVIVE THE ICE AGE EXTINCTION, DOMINATE VAST LANDSCAPES LIKE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. HUNTED ALMOST TO EXTINCTION IN THE 19TH CENTURY, ONLY 23 BISON SURVIVED IN YELLOWSTONE BUT, THANKS TO THE CREATION OF THE WORLD’S FIRST NATIONAL PARK, THE HERD IS NOW 4,000 STRONG. IN NORTHERN CANADA AND ALASKA, POLAR BISONPOLAR BEAR 4 BEARS ARE DECREASING DUE TO LOSS OF SEA ICE, ILLEGAL HUNTING AND

CONFLICT WITH PEOPLE. 3HALTING CLIMATE CHANGE IS KEY TO SAVING THIS SPECIES.