We’ve gotten tons of great guesses on Part 1 and Part 2 of the Pixel Puzzler, and now it’s time for Part 3. Are you ready for the great reveal and to find out if you got it right?
The answer to this Pixel Puzzler is (drum roll please) PELICANS!
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Name: Paul Nicklen
Born: July 21, 1968
Environmental Role: Photographer, filmmaker, author, marine biologist
When it comes to incredible underwater photography, Paul Nicklen is your guy! He’s taken photos and captured footage of walruses, elephant seals, whales and so many more amazing animals. But his work is more than just pretty pictures. They tell a story about how climate change and biodiversity loss is impacting animals on our planet. Now, Paul spends a lot of his time exploring the world’s oceans with his camera! Talk about a neat job!
1.Paul Nicklen first found his love for nature growing up in the tiny Inuit town of Baffin Island in Canada’s Arctic Circle.
2. In 2014, Paul co-founded SeaLegacy, an organization that uses photography and footage to bring awareness to ocean conservation and climate change!
3. Paul has published several books including Born to Ice and Polar Obsession, which focus on the lives of animals in the polar regions.
4. Paul has received over 30 of the highest awards given to conservation photographers including the World Press Photo for Photojournalism.
5. Paul has held several TED talks on his work as a photographer and on the science of conservation.
Paul’s work connects people and science through the power of photography. His images have helped spread awareness for so many environmental issues, and he’s shone a light on rare animals that aren’t often photographed. His work with Sealegacy continues to inspire positive environmental change for the world’s oceans. Not only does his work help the environment, but it’s beautiful to look at!
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Spooky season is upon us, which means that stores are filled with costumes, candy, and of course, pumpkins. For today’s eco-activity, we’re going to get into the Halloween spirit by creating an Earth Rangers themed jack-o’-lantern! Take a look at the suggested themes below and get carving. Tag us in photos of your pumpkins on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter in order to receive five points in the Earth Rangers app!
What you will need:
Take a look at the templates below for some inspiration and get carving! Want to get creative? Feel free to make your own design!
Click here to download Earth Rangers pumpkin carving templates!
Instructions:
Need some ideas for your Halloween costume? Check out Eco-Activity #148: Make your own Badger Mask! & Eco-Activity #159: Make your own bear paws!
We are thrilled to announce that Earth Rangers has been selected by Clean50 as a recipient of the 2022 Top Project Award! The Top Projects Award is granted annually to initiatives that innovate, inform and inspire others to take climate action and make a major impact. Our project, the Earth Rangers App, was commended by Clean50 as “unique among children’s environmental programming, with a community of over 50,000 active users who are given the tools to guide their own experience and take real-world environmental action, providing a fun and safe way to work towards a cause that matters to them.”
Read more about our Clean50 Top Project Award here
Earth Rangers President Tovah Barocas was also recognized as a 2022 Clean50 Emerging Leader. Awarded to twenty outstanding recipients each year, the Clean50 Emerging Leaders are selected from those 35 or under who have displayed extraordinary accomplishments in sustainability initiatives over the previous two years. Tovah was selected from over 1,000 nominees and joins an esteemed list of Canada’s sustainability heroes who transcend commercial industries, non-profits, academia, and government.
Read more about Tovah’s Clean50 Emerging Leader Award here
Clean50 is recognized as Canada’s top Sustainability Award. The Awards aim to accelerate collaboration towards a job-rich, cleaner, healthier, innovation based low-carbon economy that supports all Canadians.
Canada is a great place to be a tree. There’s lots of room to grow, and lots of forests—lots and lots! In fact, Canada ranks 3rd for the country with the most forests in the world. Now, not every forest is the same. There are many different types and they grow in different parts of the country. National Forest Week is now behind us, but it’s always a good time to take you on a tour of Canada’s forest regions. Find out which forest region you live in!
Acadian Forest
This forest grows mostly in the maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia, with a tiny portion in Quebec. It’s home to over 60 tree species, including lots of spruces, firs and birches—now that’s a lot of different trees!
Boreal Forest
The Boreal Forest makes up 75% of forested land in Canada, covering a whopping 270 million hectares (almost ¼ of the country)! It makes up 28% of the world’s boreal zone, which circles the globe and can be found across the northern parts of North America and Eurasia. The boreal forest grows in almost every province and territory, except New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. These forests are dominated by coniferous trees like spruces, firs, pines, and tamarack, and deciduous species such aspen and birch.
Carolinian Forest
The Carolinian Forest is one of the smallest forest regions in Canada. Located in Southern Ontario, it is the southernmost forest in the country! This forest is extremely diverse, with lots of beech, maple, walnut, hickory and oak trees. It’s home toA diversity of wildlife.
Coastal Forest
The Coastal Forest grows up Canada’s west coast in British Columbia, and has some of the biggest trees in the country! It is filled with coniferous trees like cedar, hemlock, spruce and fir.
Columbia Forest
The Columbia forest is situated between the Rocky Mountains and British Columbia’s central plateau. It’s made up of coniferous trees resembling coastal regions in its makeup.
Great Lakes St-Lawrence Forest
The Great Lakes St-Lawrence Forest region can be found throughout most of Southern Ontario and Québec. It has a mix of coniferous and deciduous trees and stands as the second largest forest in Canada! It’s known for its sugar maples which produce delicious maple syrup.
Montane Forest
The Montane Forest grows in western Alberta and the interior of British Columbia. It’s home to firs, pines, and aspens, and is one of the warmest and driest ecoregions in all of Canada! Wow!
Subalpine Forest
This very cool forest grows in the mountainous areas of British Columbia and Alberta and has lots of spruces, firs, and pines. You’ll find them where the trees transition from the dense forest below to the alpine tundra above, with the trees getting smaller and smaller the higher you go up the mountain.
So which of these forest types are your favourite? Let us know in the comments!
If you were a badger, you would roll out of your den in the middle of the night to start your “day” – after all, badgers are nocturnal, which means they sleep in the day, and are active at night! A badger’s den is quite elaborate and often consists of an entire underground network of tunnels that connects to different chambers for sleeping. Some dens can be up to 10 metres deep! Once you are roused from your badger-y slumber, you would definitely be hungry for breakfast. A badger’s breakfast consists of rodents, (like ground squirrels, mice, voles, marmots, and gophers), and other things they can scrounge up like small birds, eggs, reptiles and amphibians. As you can tell, badgers are considered carnivores, and belong to the weasel family. If you were a badger, you would have four short limbs, with sharp claws, a wide head, and fluffy ears! You would have a fur coat anywhere from grey, to tan brown in colour, except for a distinct white stripe that runs from your face, all the way down the middle of your back.
If you were a badger, you would live across America, like in California and Texas, as well as across Canada, in British Columbia, all of the prairie provinces and Ontario. Badgers enjoy a large habitat range and can travel many square kilometres. Within Canada, there are four populations of North American badger subspecies, and for this reason, each has a slightly different habitat. These habitats include grasslands, agricultural areas, steppe and open forests. If you were a badger, you would strike out on your own and explore, as badgers tend to be solitary animals.
If you were a badger, you wouldn’t have many predators or threats to look out for. However, there is one threat that exists for badgers; habitat loss. Habitat loss is by far the largest threat to our badger buddies, and is caused by increased urbanization and agricultural activity.
Earth Rangers is working with the Nature Conservancy Canada (NCC) on a restoration project that will enhance badger habitat on a 1,600-hectare property in British Columbia called Kootenay River Ranch. This conservation area is home to some of the country’s remaining American badgers (with fewer than an estimated 4,000 remaining in the wild across Canada), which is why it’s so important we do what we can to make it a safe home for these cute critters! The conservation area contains a huge stretch of open forests and grasslands, and with about 25% of the land already improved through restoration, it’s well on its way to becoming even better badger habitat. NCC is working hard to continue their restoration to return the land back to its characteristic open landscape by doing things like grinding or chipping small trees and scattering woody debris piles, NCC is working to restore the open fire-maintained grasslands and help protect this important badger habitat for years to come – but they can’t do it alone!
Trying to become more aware of your carbon footprint? Then this is challenge is for you! A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide that is emitted into the atmosphere owing to an individual’s or group’s consumption of fossil fuels. To reduce our carbon footprints, we can do all sorts of things, like eat local, be aware of energy usage and try to limit how often we use vehicles! For this activity, walk or take your bike to the grocery store instead of a car, and load up on some fresh food to help shrink your carbon footprint.
Tips for your grocery sprint:
We need your help! This llama is trying to tell us something but we can’t figure it out! Do you know what it’s thinking?
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Name: Sylvia Earle
Born: August 30, 1935 in Gibbstown, New Jersey, United States
Environmental Role: Marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer
When it comes to protecting the ocean, it’s hard to find someone more dedicated than Dr. Sylvia Earle. Spending much of her career underwater, Dr. Silvia studied the impact of oil spills on the ocean, and paved the way for women in marine biology She also founded Mission Blue, a group devoted to exploring the ocean and fighting to get as much of it protected as they can.
1. Dr. Sylvia Earle led the first-ever all-female team of aquanauts to live in an underwater habitat to conduct research in marine biology! Aquanauts are like astronauts, but instead of going into space, they go underwater!
2. She holds the world record for the deepest solo dive by any female at 381 meters (1250) feet. In fact, she set that record in 1979 and it still hasn’t been broken!
3. She is known as “Her Deepness” and the “Sturgeon General” for her diving and scientific accomplishments!
4. She was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
5. In 1988 she was named a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, and in 1998, she was named Time Magazine’s first Hero for the Planet.6. She’s received many awards for her environmental work including the Seattle Aquarium’s lifetime achievement award, a TED prize, and was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Dr. Sylvia Earle’s work as a scientist, diver, environmentalist, and explorer has helped us better understand our oceans and the role we can play in protecting them. She serves as a role model for environmentalists everywhere by following her passion, blazing a trail for female scientists, and working hard to save our oceans!
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Arctic foxes are masters of camouflage! Every winter their brown/grey fur changes to white, allowing them to blend in better with the snow and hide from predators. During that transition, they can end up with some pretty wacky and wild hairdos! For today’s eco-activity, you’re going to create some arctic fox artwork!
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Want to help arctic foxes? Purchase an adoption kit to help us protect the arctic fox! Each kit sold will support Université du Québec à Rimouski researcher Jeanne Clermont as she examines the effects of climate change on arctic fox populations.
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