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Podcast: An Earth Rangers Celebration

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Podcast: An Earth Rangers Celebration

Today is a special day – it’s both Earth Day, and our 50th podiversary! – that calls for a party!! Earth Ranger Emma celebrates by sharing some great conservation stories, fun games, and a brand-new Junior Wildlife Reporters report!

Click the play button on the player below to listen to today’s episode!

Last year, over 1,000 of you pledged to protect Wolverines, and you raised over $10,000 to help researcher Mirjam Barrueto as she worked to learn more about the Wolverines that make their homes in Canada’s Rocky Mountains. In today’s episode Emma talks with Mirjam about her work.

Mirjam Barrueto, from the University of Calgary, collecting hair samples of wolverines

Want to learn more about the wolverine project? Check out this article. And here you can find our new adoption projects

What is the most dangerous bird in the world? Junior Wildlife Reporters Lydia and Annalise will tell you about the Southern cassowary and why it is so dangerous. Check out its photo below (it’s real!)

Southern cassowary, the most dangerous bird in the world!

If you’ve ever wanted to be a podcast correspondent, here is your chance. You can create your very own animal report! It could be about your all-time favourite animal, with some cool wacky facts that nobody knows about them! Or it can be about some rare animals that most people would never have even heard about. Or cool conservation projects that happen in your neighborhood. You can even make your own quizzes, riddles and games. It is 100% your segment, but we will help you out a bit by adding cool sound effects! Ready? Click on the ‘Leave us a message’ button below!

By submitting a story before August 31st you’ll automatically be entered to the draw for a chance win an amazing Earth Rangers podcast bluetooth speaker!

We want to hear from you! Send us your Wildlife Report and it could be featured on the podcast!

You can send in a voice message by pressing the green button or use the voice recorder on a smart phone and ask your parents to email it to podcast@earthrangers.com

How did you celebrate Earth Day?

Did you hear about a cool conservation story?

Out of the last 50 episodes – which one did you like the most?

Share your thoughts in the comments below!

Subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss an episode!

British High Commission partners with Earth Rangers to encourage youth to act on climate change

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British High Commission partners with Earth Rangers to encourage youth to act on climate change

Ottawa, 21 APRIL 2021 – The British High Commission has today announced a new partnership with kids’ conservation organization Earth Rangers, to use app-based technology to empower and inspire Canadian youth to take climate action ahead of the UK hosted COP26 Conference in Glasgow this year.

The British High Commission has partnered with Earth Rangers to launch a series of climate-themed activities as part of Earth Rangers’ Missions Program. Each mission focuses on topics such as climate mitigation through rainwater harvesting, reducing GHGs by saving energy at home, and planting trees while learning about the importance of forests and other ecosystems such as carbon sinks.

This partnership will raise awareness about climate change among children and provide them with an opportunity to take concrete and positive action for the future of their planet.

Tovah Barocas, President of Earth Rangers

“Children will play an important role in every country’s climate future, and we want to ensure our members are equipped with the tools and knowledge to make a difference, and with the confidence that they can truly affect change.”

Susan le Jeune d’Allegeershecque, British High Commissioner to Canada:

“We are delighted to be partnering with Earth Rangers to help inspire kids to get involved in the fight against climate change. We believe it’s so important to empower the next generation to take action now so they can help shape the future of our planet.”  

This initiative is part of a series of activities the UK is undertaking to build climate action in the lead up to the UK hosted 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November. This partnership is part of the UK Government’s ten point plan to fuel a green industrial revolution, with an aim to engage countries and businesses around the world to do their part in tackling climate change.

Youth are an integral part of this plan, because the decisions we make today will directly impact our ability to safeguard the environment for future generations to come. At COP26, the world will come together to prioritise urgent climate action and it is crucial that youth are a part of it.

Media Contact: Tom Walsh, British High Commission tom.walsh@fcdo.gov.uk

About The British High Commission in Ottawa

The British High Commission in Ottawa, is the UK government’s main diplomatic mission in Canada. Along with Consulates-General in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, we work closely with the Canadian government and partners across the country to develop and maintain a wide range of substantive partnerships of real value to both countries. These partnerships cover business, defense, climate change, science and innovation, education, and culture. To learn more about The British High Commission in Ottawa, please visit https://www.gov.uk/world/canada

About Earth Rangers

Earth Rangers is the kids’ conservation organization, committed to instilling environmental knowledge, positivity, and the confidence to take action in every child. We do this through a suite of free, educational, and engaging programming that children can participate in at school, at home, and in their communities. To learn more about Earth Rangers, please visit www.earthrangers.org

5 fun ways to farm from home

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5 fun ways to farm from home

We all know how important it is to buy local. Besides helping support the businesses that keep your neighbourhood thriving (something that’s more important now than ever!), the benefits of being a locavore go well beyond your postal code. Buying local goods or eating local foods helps shrink your carbon footprint by reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are released as products make their way to you. Fewer greenhouse gas emissions means reducing your contribution to climate change, and any animal lover knows this has a huge positive impact on our fave furry friends! This Earth Week, help do your part with these tips and tricks to help you go as local as possible with 5 foods you can grow right in your own backyard, all from scraps and leftovers!

Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes

Have you ever thrown out a potato or sweet potato because it’s started growing what looks like octopus tentacles? Those are actually new plant shoots, and they’re ready to grow! These shoots grow out of a potato’s eyes (small indentations on the skin), so if you’ve got potato scraps laying around, simply dry out pieces with eyes overnight, then place them in soil with their eyes facing up. Or stick a whole potato in soil with its eyes facing upward and watch the magic happen!

Avocado

Depending on where you live you might not be able to grow an avocado outside, but a new plant will sprout up from an old pit in no time, where it can live in a container for years! Simply take your avocado pit, poke it with 3 toothpicks to help it stay afloat, then place it in a glass of water. The water should cover about half the pit, and you’ll see roots emerge in no time!

Garlic and onions

We don’t often use the roots of an onion or a clove of garlic when we cook, but these discarded scraps are just what we need to sprout new plants! Find the piece of the base/stem that has roots already attached and place it in a shallow dish of water, then watch as it grows roots in a couple of days.

Lettuce

To regrow lettuce, all you need is the leftover base from the head of whatever lettuce is popular in your kitchen! Place it in a glass container and fill it with enough water to cover the bottom half of the base, then stick it on a windowsill and you should see new growth from the top of the base in no time.

Carrots and other root veggies

Keeping the tops (where the leaves and stems attach to the root, or vegetable) of carrots, beets, turnips, and other root vegetables will let you easily regrow new ones. Just place the tops in a container and cover them with water and new green tops should grow within a couple of days!

Want more tips to help you become a locavore? Accept the Live Love Local Mission in the Earth Rangers App today!

Eco-Activity: It’s time for Creature Feature Round 2!

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Eco-Activity: It’s time for Creature Feature Round 2!

We hope you enjoyed last week’s fox fun creature feature! Can you guess hoo this week’s special guest is?

Great horned owls are found throughout North America, making their homes in a variety of habitats. They like to live on the edge of open habitat, like wetlands, meadows, and croplands, where their amazing eyesight and keen sense of hearing can help them spot tiny prey out in the open as they hunt silently from above.

Sadly, their populations have been declining, and the open spaces they rely on are disappearing. That’s why it’s so important we protect and restore the places where they’re found, and you can help! Click here to learn more!

Now that you know owl about these awesome animals, let’s get crafting! For today’s eco-activity, we’re making pop-up owl cards (complete with a moving beak!) that are sure to be a hoot for any lucky recipient!

Write your own message or check out our favourite owl jokes if you need some inspiration! 

  • What is an owl’s favorite subject in school? Owlgebra
  • What is an owl’s favorite drink? Hoot beer
  • What is an owl’s favorite type of book? HOO-dunnits
  • Why don’t owl’s study for tests? They just wing them
  • What should an owl always bring to the beach? A t-owl

Celebrating the importance of Canada’s Fabulous Forests

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Celebrating the importance of Canada’s Fabulous Forests


Have you ever taken a hike through a forest? There’s something incredibly peaceful about wandering under a lush canopy of emerald green, with a thick carpet of moss, leaves and twigs crunching under your feet. The air is clean, the breeze is filled with birdsong, and creatures are scurrying all around you (even if you can’t see them). But whether its tropical, temperate, or boreal, there’s a few things you should know about forests:

  1. They clean our air by absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.  Kind of like giant lungs for the planet!
  2. They help prevent erosion.
  3. They keep our water clean.
  4. They provide essential products and good paying jobs to people all over the world.


On March 21st, we celebrated the International Day of Forests, which reminds us about the important role that forests play in our daily lives. Just look at the many different creatures that live in the forest and rely on it for shelter and food.  In fact, some animals have unique needs that can only be met by a forest environment.

  • Mountain Bluebird, male, sialia currucoides
  • organgutan in a tree

Animals like the tree kangaroo, sloth and orangutan are arboreal, which means they spend most of their days hanging out in leafy tree branches. Other animals, like leopards, owls and moths use trees for camouflage.  Thousands of birds, squirrels and chipmunks build their nests in tree branches and trunks and Beavers use trees to build their lodges.

But animals aren’t the only ones who need forests.  People all over the world depend on forests for recreation, for jobs, for food, and for the products that we use every day. Things like toilet paper, face masks, furniture, lumber to build houses, and fuel for heat all – come from the forest. 

Here in Canada, our foresters carefully manage this renewable resource to make sure that we – and future generations – enjoy forests forever.  They make sure that every tree harvested is replaced, and they plant over 400 million trees every year – or 1,000 trees every minute!  Not only that: Canadian foresters monitor their young seedlings for years afterward to ensure new and healthy forests take root.   So the next time you visit a forest – celebrate the important role it plays for people, and animals and the entire planet.


FUN FACT:

In Canada there are about 9,000 trees for every Canadian.

Eco-Activity: Plant a tree, get a FREE gift!

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Eco-Activity: Plant a tree, get a FREE gift!

*Please note: Limited quanity gift packs from FPAC are no longer available

As an Earth Ranger we probably don’t need to tell you how important trees are. Besides being nice to look at, they help fight climate change and give the animals we love a safe place to call home! That’s why for today’s eco-activity we want you to plant Just 1 Tree!

First, pick a tree that grows well where you live. Click here for a handy guide you can use if you’re not sure! Then you’ll have to get your tree, and this is where the fun begins. Here’s how:

  • Buy a seed pack from a local garden center and start your sprouting indoors until it’s warmer out (tip: save an eggshell and fill it with dirt and use it as your seed pot, then just plant the whole egg once it’s sprouted!)
  • Try to see if you can find a seed in your own backyard! Look for things like acorns, pinecones, or maple keys and replant these to start your tree from scratch. You could even plant the pit from a fruit that grows near you, like a plum or peach!
  • If it’s already warm enough where you live, check your local garden center for a seedling and you’re ready to plant!

As a special thank you, FPAC want to send you a FREE kit full of everything a young arborist (that’s the term for someone who plants, manages, and studies trees) needs to get started! Your kit includes a buff, a notebook, and a button you can show off with pride. Have a parent/guardian complete the form here and you should receive your kit in 4-8 weeks. But hurry: quantities are limited, so get yours before they run out! In the meantime, you’re ready to get planting.

Arctic Fox Crossword

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Arctic Fox Crossword

It’s time for some fox fun! Think you can solve this crossword? Besides flexing your knowledge of fox facts, you’ll also be cracking a code for 10 bonus points—enter the answer to the clue at 4 Across in the Code Vault in the Earth Rangers App to cash in!

Eco-Activity: Celebrate Earth Month by showing off your love for animals!

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Eco-Activity: Celebrate Earth Month by showing off your love for animals!

April is our favourite. It’s a month that’s all about the animals! Well okay, every month is all about the animals here at Earth Rangers… but Earth Month is a special time every year when we call on YOU to join our team and show your love, so for today’s eco-activity we’re doing just that!

With the help of an adult, print an animal cutout (or draw them yourself, if you’re feeling extra creative!), fill in the blanks, then tag us on Facebook or Instagram and use #EarthMonthForAnimals when you post on social for your chance to be featured!

  • Owl: I love owl animals because _______
  • Beluga: I think animals are whale-y awesome because _____
  • Otter: I think everyone otter protect animals because _______
  • Bee: Here’s what I think makes animals un-bee-lievable: _____________________
  • Grizzly: I can bear-ly contain my love for animals because ____________________

Want to do more for animals this Earth Month? 

Visit www.earthrangers.com/wildlife-adoptions to learn more about our Wildlife Adoptions Program, which supports real life conservation projects to help protect the animals we love!

Eco-Activity: Say ‘SUP to recycled bead curtains!

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Eco-Activity: Say ‘SUP to recycled bead curtains!

It’s time to cut the SUPs – single-use plastics, that is! These are plastic products like straws, grocery bags, and water bottles, designed to be used only once before they end up in the bin. Keep them out of the trash and give them a new life with this DIY bead curtain instead!

First, gather your supplies. All you’ll need are scissors and string (yarn or twine should do the trick), but you can get creative with paints and glitter glue too!

Next, canvas your trash and recycling bins for some colourful plastics you can use to get creative. Bottle lids, detergent containers, plastic packaging, and even takeout containers should do the trick! You’ll want items that you’ll be able to cut easily.

Decide where your bead curtain will hang and cut pieces of string to length. Once you’ve tied on your beads, put up your curtain and admire your artwork! 

Time to band together for badgers!

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Time to band together for badgers!

They might look pretty different, but did you know that the American badger is related to both otters and weasels? Don’t let their cuddly appearance fool you, though: these ferret-family furballs are feisty foragers! Known as fossorial carnivores, American badgers are built to hunt underground prey. Their long snouts help them sniff out small rodents like voles and ground squirrels, and their long claws (their front ones can grow up to 5 cm long!) help them tear through soil once they’ve found their buried buffet.

Home is where the grassland is

Being hunters that are built to find food underground, it makes sense that badgers do best in places where the soil is loose and not full of large woody roots and other rocky materials. Enter the grassland! These ecosystems usually have soil that crumbles easily, and the thin roots of the grasses that grow there allow badgers to dig long tunnels and hunt underground quickly. Being open habitats, grasslands also don’t offer prey many places to hide, which makes the badger’s hunt even easier! Unfortunately, as cities and towns spread, and grasslands become converted to farm fields and houses, the important grassland habitat badgers rely on is disappearing – and quickly. That’s where you come in!

Will you be a badger buddy?

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, but they can’t do it alone!

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