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For our Special Endangered Animals Issue, we’re celebrating five animals that were once in trouble but are now recovering. Before you read about these inspiring comebacks, take a fun quiz to discover the best way you can help your favorite critter.
wolves are the only species of wolf that lives in the United States—and nowhere else
Create your own stop-motion animated movie!
clay or paper) Backdrops, backgrounds, or a good place to shoot a movie Whatever else
Trudi Trueit has written more than a hundred books for young readers, both fiction and nonfiction. Her love of writing began in fourth grade when she wrote, directed, and starred in her first play. She went on to become a TV news reporter and weather forecaster, but she knew her calling was in writing. Trueit is a gifted storyteller for middle-grade audiences, and her fiction novels include The Sister Solution, Stealing Popular, and the Secrets of a Lab Rat series. Her expertise in nonfiction for kids comes through in books on history, weather, wildlife, and Earth science. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Trueit lives in Everett, Washington.
Then I just started writing to fill everything else in.
Get to know trees.
DON’T take leaves or anything else if you’re in a protected area, like a national
Some species of cicada live as long as 17 years, though most of the time is spent underground. There are two groups of cicadas: annual cicadas and periodical cicadas.
bugs hanging out in the trees—things might get so loud you won’t hear anything else
Even if you’ve never been to Kenya, chances are you know what it looks like.
Kenya’s highland forests are home to many animals found nowhere else in the world
New Zealand is a remote, mountainous group of islands located off the southeast coast of Australia.
its remote location, New Zealand is rich in unusual wildlife not seen anywhere else
Get facts and photos about the 33rd state.
Here in the Beaver State they meet—what else?
Get facts and photos about this U.S. island territory.
Islands is the Mariana fruit dove, a green fruit-eating bird that lives nowhere else
