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Today, on Endangered Species Day, discover how we're working together to help our world's most threatened wildlife. And find out how you can help protect their forest and ocean habitats. Thank you for caring deeply about the biodiversity of life today and every day!
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Support the FOREST Act
Help protect forests and stop the illegal deforestation behind the products we consume every day. Ask your members of Congress to support the bipartisan FOREST Act today. |
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Do you know?
Can you name this plant? It's the most invasive aquatic plant in the world. |
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Range
Saola are found in only one place on Earth: the evergreen broadleaf forests of the Central Annamites on the border of Viet Nam and Lao PDR. |
Appearance
Related to bison, buffalo, and cattle, saolas can be nearly three feet tall and weigh around 200 pounds. They have a chocolate-brown coat, striking white markings on the face, and two sharp horns, grown by both males and females. |
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Pop quiz
Corn is used in a wide array of items we use every day—from medicines and soda to cosmetics and toothpaste. How much of the corn grown in the US is used to produce ethanol, a biofuel that’s blended into gasoline to reduce emissions and improve air quality? |
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Photos: Greater glider in tree © Josh Bowell; Forest landscape © WWF/JaapvanderWaarde; Ester Issa Amuri © True Vision Production Ltd./CARE-WWF Alliance; Plastic pollution © Shutterstock/Roman Mikhailiuk/WWF; Gorilla © Michel Gunther/WWF; Nature Breaking podcast © Adriano Gamberini/WWF-Brazil; Kangaroo © Mike Hillman; Purple flowers © Karine Aigner/WWF-US; Saola © David Hulse/WWF; Corn © Photoongraphy/Shutterstock; Elephant illustration © Mike Mirandi; Tiger © Emmanuel Rondeau/WWF-US; Elephants in forest © IMAGEO-ATIBT 2022; Plastics in Viet Nam © WWF-Viet Nam/Cham Team |
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