Yukon’s native plants uplift the territory’s people and ecosystems

Yukon’s native plants uplift the territory’s people and ecosystems

Terrestrial ecozones of Yukon © WWF-Canada A swath of what we now call Yukon once belonged to Beringia, a region that, unlike the rest of Canada, was not covered in glaciers during the ice age that ended around 11,000 years ago. Beringia connected North America to Siberia and allowed species, including people, to travel between the two continents. As a result, Yukon boasts a perhaps-surprising amount of biodiversity, including over 1,250 species…