Amerykańskie parki narodowe tracą swoją tożsamość przez zmiany klimatu - AFP
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Lucie AUBOURG, "Loss and hope: US park rangers' climate crisis fight"
Geologist Laura Brennan poses in Indiana Dunes National Park in Indiana on November 2, 2023. Brennan describes the coin-sized Karner blue butterfly as "very delicate and graceful" with a "lovely blue" coloring and "just a little speckling of orange." The species, declared endangered in 1992, used to flourish in Indiana Dunes National Park, where Brennan has worked for two decades.
But the butterfly is now believed to have disappeared entirely from the midwestern US park -- becoming a victim of rising temperatures fueled by human activity, among other stressors.
Brennan and thousands of others in the National Park Service (NPS) are witnessing firsthand the consequences of the climate crisis and struggling to mitigate its impacts. (Photo by Lucie AUBOURG / AFP)
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