Greetings from Yosemite National Park, the first stop on Earth Ranger Emma’s epic adventure relaxing vacation! She’s having an excellent time hiking around and learning all about the animals and plants that call this place home.
Tune in to join the adventure!

Today on her trip Emma is greeting us from Yosemite National Park, the first stop on her “totally a vacation” adventure exploring different National Parks. Yosemite Park has many wonderful wildlife, from coyotes, marmotes to big bears and bobcats. But the coolest one is one that Emma had the pleasure of seeing in real life: The Bighorn Sheep!

The Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep are known for being built for life at high elevations. They are comfortable climbing up cliffside that no one else would dare to! This is because of their awesome cloven hooves and rubbery pads, which lets them hold on to steep rocky surfaces.

If life wasn’t challenging enough for these sheep, they have to deal with predators and sickness! Bighorn sheep have trouble with the germs that regular farm sheep carry, and contact with it can be deadly. This caused Bighorn sheep in Yosemite park and elsewhere to become endangered.

Earth Rangers has been working hard to stop this! Along with the Nature Conservancy Canada (NCC) on an awesome project to protect and restore a 1600 hectare area in British Columbia. It’s called the Kootenay River Ranch, and home to endangered animals like the Bighorn Sheep.

You too can help! Head to the Adoptions Section in the Earth Rangers App or visit the Earth Rangers Shop to get your Adoption Kit and help make a difference today!

Emma has one last little gift for you guys! While hiking, she saw a bighorn sheep mom and its baby. The cool pictures she took were sent to the Earth Rangers Centre, here is one of them!

While talking with Park Ranger Jada, Emma learned about one flying predator that may try to challenge the bighorn sheep, do you think you could name this cool bird? Let us know in the comments!

What are your thoughts about Emma’s vacation destination? Do you have any ideas of where she could go? Don’t know any good national parks, let us know what’s your favorite kind of relaxing thing to do during summer vacations!