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Discover how we can all work together to protect monarch butterflies, forests, wetlands, and our planet. Thank you for helping us create a future where people and nature thrive.
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Monarch butterflies at risk
See what the annual survey by WWF and partners uncovered after we measured the area of Mexico's forest where monarchs hibernate each winter—and learn how to help pollinators. |
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Help stop global deforestation
We need your help to ensure that the products US consumers buy aren't contributing to criminal activity and the destruction of forests. Add your name today. |
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Can you find it?
Hidden in the grasslands is a bird that breeds in the Northern Great Plains. Can you locate it? Bonus points if you can identify it. |
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Range and habitat
River otters are found throughout most of North America from the Rio Grande to Canada and Alaska. They live in aquatic habitats—marine and freshwater—such as streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, and marshes. |
Interesting info
Communicating in a variety of ways, they vocalize with whistles, chirps, growls, chuckles, and screams. They also scent mark and use posture and touch. |
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Well adapted for spending much of their lives in the water, North American river otters have long, streamlined bodies, a long, powerful tail, webbed feet, dense insulating fur, sensitive whiskers that help with hunting aquatic prey, and a third eyelid that enables underwater vision. |
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Pop quiz
You probably know that oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth's surface. But do you know how much is covered by freshwater habitats, such as lakes, rivers, streams, and wetlands? |
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Photos: Monarch butterfly © WWF-US/McDonald Mirabile; Deforestation © Sofia Theodoridoy/WWF-Sweden; Preparing curanto dish © Meridith Kohut/WWF-US; Boaters and whale fluke © UCSC-WWF-Chris Johnson -permit under NOAA; Honeybee © WWF-US/Clay Bolt; Green hydrogen Nature Breaking © Getting Images/iStockphoto/onurdongel/WWF-US; Polar bear © Lianne Thompson; Can you find it image © WWF-US/Clay Bolt; North American river otter © Scott Dumas/Shutterstock; Otter ecard © Dean Clarke/Shutterstock; Bog surrounding river in morning light © naturepl.com/Sven Zacek/WWF; Humpback whale © Amy Kennedy/NOAA |
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