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Grizzly Bears: The World’s Best “Social Distancers”!

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Grizzly Bears: The World’s Best “Social Distancers”!

Hey Earth Rangers! The world sure is different right now. A lot of schools are closed, and so are a lot of stores and parks and playgrounds and tons of other fun stuff! You’re probably hearing a lot about “social distancing” and maybe not seeing your friends and family as much as you used to. It’s not easy! Sometimes you might feel like a bear hibernating in a cave.

But there’s good news too. By staying home more, we’re all working together to keep people safe. And we can take this opportunity to discover new things to do, try out new hobbies, and find creative ways to connect with friends (like writing a funny email, having a video chat, or just talking on the phone!).

And since you’re an Earth Ranger, you’re probably also using the opportunity to brush up on your animal knowledge! And who better to look to for some hibernation inspiration than one of the world’s best “social distancers”: the grizzly bear! Let’s check in with one of our Wildlife Adoption species, the grizzles of the Beaver River Watershed in Canada’s Yukon, for a closer look.

The Hibernation Experts

You probably already know that bears hibernate—it’s one of the most well-known bear facts there is! Every winter, they cozy up in their caves, emerging fresh as a daisy each spring ready to catch fish and feast on berries to their heart’s content.

But what really goes on in there? Like other grizzlies, the Beaver River bears hibernate for 5-7 months every year. While in their deep slumber, a few different things happen: their body temperature drops by about 10 degrees, their body functions slow down so that they burn energy more slowly, and they only breathe about once every 45 seconds (try it, it’s not easy!). This allows them to live off of the layer of fat they built up during the summer and fall months.

Unless it’s a mother bear with her cubs, these bears hibernate completely alone. It might seem lonely to you but there’s nothing a grizzly loves more than an extra-long, extra quiet nap!

Seeking Solitude

You might think that when the Beaver River bears wake up from hibernation, they’re eager to socialize. But you’d be wrong! For the most part, grizzly bears live alone. Every now and then, they will meet up with other grizzlies outside of mating season and stand next to each other, but not much socialization will occur.

“Hey, what are we looking at?”

I Need My Space!

Grizzly bears love big, open areas like tundra, alpine meadows and coastlines—the more space they have, the better! For example, the Beaver River bears have home ranges between 200 and up to 1,200 square kilometres! That’s a LOT of space!

“Hmph, I wish the neighbours would keep it down!”

Help the Beaver River Grizzly Bears Keep Their Distance

Even in the beautiful and remote Beaver River Watershed, the space and solitude of the Beaver River grizzlies are under threat. Developers are looking at building a 65km-long mining road, which will puncture through important wildlife habitat, intersect 73 rivers and streams, and destroy or disturb many hectares of valley bottoms and berry patches that grizzlies call home.

That’s why Earth Rangers has teamed up with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Canada, the Government of Yukon, and the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun to support a team of grizzly bear biologists as they work to access the difficult terrain by helicopter and determine grizzly bear population size, habitat use, and distribution. This new data will be used to learn how the road and mining sites will impact the grizzlies’ preferred habitats, and which areas to avoid building on to make sure grizzlies have all the space they need in the future!

YOU can help by adopting a grizzly bear today through our Wildlife Adoptions Program! Learn more here!

Your adoption kit comes with a personalized certificate, grizzly bear poster, and an adorable bear plushie!

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What’s SUP, Earth Ranger?!

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What’s SUP Earth Ranger?

Glad to hear you’re doing great, but we meant to ask you if you knew that SUP means single-use plastic! Things like straws, plastic bags, disposable cutlery in mall food courts… they all are meant to be convenient for us, but really only are for only a few moments. They’re designed to be tossed as soon as we’ve used them that ONE time! Then that plastic ends up laying around our planet and endangering animals, yikes! They can cause huge problems for our whole planet. 

We know what you’re thinking… “But what about recycling? Doesn’t that help make the SUPs useful after their intended single-use?” Unfortunately about 90% of all plastic waste hasn’t actually been reused, and ends up as total trash anyway. Where do you think the world’s BIGGEST garbage dump is? Hint: It’s not on land! 

The most enormous garbage dump you could possibly imagine is smack in the middle of the Pacific Ocean – right between California and Japan. So, just how big is it? Get this – it’s bigger than all of Ontario!!

  • The “Trash Vortex” is made up of almost 100% plastic (scientists think it’s somewhere between 3 and 6 million tonnes)
  • Lots of it comes from things that are thrown off of ships, the rest is from land
  • You don’t even have to live close to a beach for your garbage to end up in the ocean

And it’s not just the animals that get put in danger… 

Apart from animals getting tangled in large pieces of plastic, sea creatures can also mistake it for food. When eaten, plastic takes away space in an animal’s belly that would have been filled with food. This means they can’t get the nutrients they need to survive. The problem doesn’t end there. If a small fish eats some plastic and then is eaten by a larger fish and so on, the entire food chain is contaminated. So if we eat fish, we could be eating plastic too!

But there is hope at the end of this plastic-filled tunnel!

Did you know that Canada is currently planning on banning all harmful single-use plastics as early as 2021! As a country we have certainly made moves to reduce the amount of SUPs, but as an Earth Ranger, you can take matters into your own awesome animal-saving hands! Let’s get a head start on ditching SUPs by working on phasing them out in our everyday life. As we work on mastering this challenge, as Earth Rangers we can help to educate our friends and families on awesome alternatives! 

Straws, plastic bags and other single-use plastics (SUPs) are a big problem for our planet. Not only do they take lots of resources to make, they also contribute to climate change and can really hurt animals if they end up in nature. So let’s help our planet and cut single-use plastics out of our lives!

Plus, by taking the pledge to stop using single-use plastics and completing the More Plastic More Problems Mission –  for a limited time only you’ll receive a special code for an exclusive avatar item in the Earth Rangers App! Plus these other awesome tools:

  • A Mission Brief filled with tons of information about the problem with plastics, along with a guide to the worst offenders in your home
  • A tracking sheet to help you monitor your progress
  • A printable pledge to make your commitment official!

Here’s an awesome example of an Earth Ranger who took the More Plastics More Problems Mission to the next level: Earth Ranger Tess started an online petition in hopes of fully banning plastic bags in her city of Arnprior, Ontario! Her plan is to take her petition to the mayor in order to prove that people support this change in order to help save our planet. 

Tess says, “I want to talk to the mayor about changing how we use plastic bags. Right now, when we go grocery shopping, not everyone brings reusable bags. I see a lot of people asking for up to 15 bags in one grocery order!!! And what’s worse they don’t even fill those plastic bags to the top. According to the Retail Council of Canada, communities in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec and New Brunswick have banned single-use plastic bags at grocery and retail stores. Ontario is not on this list!!! We can change this!”

Help reduce the number of single-use plastics used by accepting the

 More Plastic, More Problems Mission!

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Restoring Prairie Habitat for Western Bumblebees

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Restoring Prairie Habitat for Western Bumblebees

The western bumblebee is what we call a habitat generalist—a species able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and ecosystems, from subalpine and montane habitats to open forests and prairie grasslands. Once considered one of the most common and widespread bumblebees in western Canada, this species has experienced a significant decline in recent years due to cumulative habitat loss and fragmentation as a result of increasingly intensive agriculture, pesticides, and other land use practices.

A Busy Life!

A bumblebee’s life starts with the queen of the hive. She’s the only bee to survive the winter (she hibernates through the cold months), and in the spring she has one job: to find the perfect place to lay her eggs and start building a new colony.  Popular areas for bumblebee nests are under buildings (like sheds) and in abandoned rodent burrows. The first eggs the queen lays develop into female worker bees. They help by collecting pollen and nectar, and taking care of the larvae and the nest. Later in the season, eggs develop into male bees and new queens. These queens survive the winter, starting the cycle over.

Bee-ing Helpful

We’re working hard to bring the western bumblebee back to southern Saskatchewan by teaming up with Nature Conservancy Canada (NCC). By adopting a western bumblebee through the Earth Rangers App, you’ll help NCC purchase land that has been used for farming and transform it back into bumblebee habitats—that means planting native flowers, creating nesting spots and protected areas for overwintering. NCC will also help to educate people in Saskatchewan about how they can help the western bumblebee through their Conservation Volunteer and Indigenous Youth Education Programs.

Learn how you can adopt these species and many others by downloading the Earth Rangers App today!

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Get the Buzz on Bumblebees!

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Get the Buzz on Bumblebees!

Everyone knows that bees are super-important – they pollinate flowers, fruits and vegetables. These helpful insects are anything but pests!  Unfortunately, western bumblebee populations are in decline. These fuzzy black-yellow-and-white bees are called “habitat generalists,” which means they’re happy to live in a variety of different ecosystems. Western bumblebees used to be found in habitats across western Canada, from mountain areas to forests to prairie grasslands. These once common insects are losing their habitats to development and agriculture. They’re also being exposed to pesticides. All of these problems spell big trouble for this crucial little bee.

A Busy, Buzzy Life!
A bumblebee’s life starts with the queen of the hive. She’s the only bee to survive the winter (she hibernates through the cold months), and in the spring she has one job: to find the perfect place to lay her eggs and start building a new colony.  Popular areas for bee nests are under buildings (like sheds) and in abandoned rodent burrows.  The first eggs the queen lays develop into female worker bees. They help by collecting pollen and nectar, and taking care of the larvae and the nest. Later in the season, eggs develop into male bees and new queens. These queens survive the winter, starting the cycle over.

Bee-ing Helpful
We’re working hard to bring the western bumblebee back to southern Saskatchewan by teaming up with Nature Conservancy Canada (NCC).  By adopting a western bumblebee, you’ll help NCC purchase land that has been used for farming and transform it back into bumblebee habitats – that means planting native flowers, creating nesting spots and protected areas for overwintering. NCC will also help to educate people in Saskatchewan about how they can help the western bumblebee through their Conservation Volunteer and Indigenous Youth Education Programs.

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Meet the Miraculous Murre… and our Super Scientist Emily Choy!

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Meet the Miraculous Murre… and our Super Scientist Emily Choy!

Hey Earth Rangers! As you may have read in our project kickoff article, our research partner Emily Choy is working hard at saving the thick-billed murre. Curious to see how she manages to do her work, on the side of cliffs (WHOA!)?! Keep reading!

Meet Thick-billed murre hero, Emily Choy!

Emily studies the effects of climate change on thick-billed murres in the Arctic, looking at how changes in prey availability (that’s fancy “science-speak” for how much food they can find) affects their behaviour. Over the past 30 years, the prey of thick-billed murres has changed from almost 50% Arctic cod to almost 50% capelin, a fish species from the Atlantic Ocean. But why? And does this matter? These are questions Emily is hard at work trying to figure out!

So what is a typical day for Emily?

Usually, Emily and her team start their day off by checking each of their research sites for new eggs, pipped eggs (eggs that have cute little baby chicks starting to hatch), and new chicks. Next, it depends on what type of research activities they have planned for that day. 

On some days early in the breeding season, Emily helps measure the size of eggs to see how they are developing and when they might be ready to hatch. On other days Emily’s team spends a few hours gently catching birds and attaching small biologgers on them. These fancy tools basically look like tiny backpacks on the birds’ backs. How cute! They let the team track where the birds are going and what they are doing. Other days Emily spends her time working on her main research goals, including looking at the effects of warm temperatures on the birds’ breathing rate and behaviour, or monitoring their heart rate!

Emily’s team hard at work near the murre colony.
LOOK HOW FLUFFY THOSE CLIFFSIDE CHICKS ARE!
Breakfast is served, little one!
SO CUTE!!!

What is the most difficult thing about what Emily does?

According to Emily, definitely the rocky cliffs and weather conditions! Arctic fieldwork can be very tricky as the weather and environment can be unpredictable. Sometimes Emily might have a plan to do her work, such as re-catching a bird she is studying, but she can’t if it’s too windy, since it isn’t safe for her to do her work. The team also has to be extra alert for polar bears, since they sometimes come looking for murre eggs. If a polar bear comes looking for eggs to nibble on while they are researching they can’t keep hanging out with the murre because it can get extra dangerous!!  

Safety first for Emily and her team! Look at all their harnesses!
A birds-eye view of the Coats Island, where Emily’s team is doing their research. This is what the murres see when they are flying around! Awesome!

Spectacular swimmers

Emily believes that murres are really quite extraordinary, and we do too! Murres spend many hours flying great distances through the air during the breeding season. This defies the rules of nature because most other birds that are amazing divers typically do not spend a lot of time flying since it requires a lot of energy. Penguins are the perfect example of this, as they are amazing divers but do not fly! 

Murres can use their wings to swim underwater, kind of like underwater flying! Some murres have been recorded to dive up to 200 metres in about 3-4 minutes. To compare, scuba divers can generally only go about 40 meters deep without it getting extremely dangerous for their bodies, due to extreme underwater pressure. That means that the murres can swim down five times that amount, so they are incredibly strong! Take a moment and think about that in terms of height: if we swam down 200 meters, that would be like swimming about half the length of the CN Tower in Toronto!! WHOA!

Round of applause for Emily and the magnificent murres!

You can do your part to help Emily on her quest to learn more about these amazing birds by purchasing an adoption kit in the app!

Your adoption kit comes with a personalized certificate, thick-billed murre poster, and an adorable murre plushie!

Photos by Douglas Noblet ~ www.wildairphoto.com

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A Valentine’s Day Walk in the Woods

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A Valentine’s Day Walk in the Woods

It’s almost Valentine’s Day, Earth Rangers, and love is in the air for these woodland creatures! We ventured deep into the forest to meet five amazing animals that find the love of their life and then stay together forever. Let’s find out the key to their long relationships!

Hello, Bruce. It’s so nice that you invited us to your lodge today.
Ah, hello! Just adding some more logs to the ol’ dam. We beavers are constantly building, adding, and adjusting our homes.  Some people call us the engineers of the animal world.

beaver grass
These twigs look perfect – time to build that addition we’ve been talking about!

Does your whole family live in your lodge together?
I live here with my kids – my kits, really – and my dear mate, Bernice. She’s so wonderful.  We met when we were three – which is the age most beavers find mates. Did you know Bernice is now a mother of twelve? We’ve had three kits every year for the past four years. Each year, the new kits and the ones from the past year live in the lodge with us. Then, after two years at home with mom and dad, they head out on their own. 

Any Valentine’s Day plans?
Well, Bernice and I always enjoy going out for a delicious meal of bark, twigs and leaves. Yum!  

Thanks, Bruce! Now, I think I see my next interview subjects…ah, yes. It’s Emerald and Edward the bald eagle! Their nest is pretty huge, actually, so it’s not hard to find!

Ah, I see you spotted us. Our nest is really big because we use it every single year when we’re ready to lay our eggs! Did you know that our nest is also called an aerie? We add to it each year and it can grow quite huge!

Comin’ in hot for a hug, dear Emerald!

It’s very impressive! How did you pick this spot?

Well, we knew we wanted the tallest tree in the forest, so that was our first pick! A tree near water was a nice bonus too. We were lucky we found a spot like this in such a beautiful forest, and we’re so thankful this forest exists!

Well we’re pretty thankful too – you have such a beautiful family and a beautiful home! I’m an Earth Ranger, and to show my appreciation for forests and all the amazing things they give us, I’ve made tons of cool crafts using things like twigs and recycled toilet paper rolls.

The Fantastic Crafts and When to Make Them Mission gave me lots of good ideas, including a Valentine’s Day card made of popsicle sticks that I made especially for you two lovebirds! And speaking of lovebirds, how do you two deal with parenting together?

Well look at that Edward, isn’t that just lovely?! Thank you so much! When it comes to parenting, we both take our roles very seriously. Bald eagle parents take care of their eaglets for two and a half months. We both bring food to the nest, and we both protect our babies from predators.  Even after our eaglets leave the nest, they don’t go too far away. We continue to give our little sweeties food until they’re totally grown up.

When do bald eagles usually find a mate?


When we’re about five years old. We live up to thirty years, so we have really, really long relationships!

Wow! That IS a long time! Now, I’ve got to look for our next creatures…the gray wolves!  Ah, there they are…with their whole pack! Er…hi, Walter. Nice to see you!


Good to see you as well! This is my wonderful mate, Wendy. And this is our pack!

I’m Wendy, and this is Gloria and Walter Jr.! Nice to meet ya!

Uh, yes. I noticed. There sure are a lot of wolves here.


Yes, we have ten wolves in our pack. I’m the alpha male, and Wendy is the alpha female. That means we’re the leaders of the pack. The rest of the wolves are our pups from years past. We’re all family.

How many pups do gray wolves usually have each year?

We have about 4-7 pups in a litter, and after our pups turn two years old, they can choose to stick with our pack or head out on their own. Some of our pups have started their own packs. It makes a papa proud!  Speaking of proud papas, have you met Chris? He’s the tasty-looking coyote that lives just over that hill.

Yes, I’m off to see him next! Thanks, Walter.

Happy to help!  Tell Chris I hope to see him later.

Chris, you’re the last animal on my Valentine’s Day list. Tell us about your mate.


I met Clementine when we were about two – that’s the usual time for coyotes to find a mate. And we’ve been super close ever since. Coyotes stay together forever. We’re true romantics!

Check out this photo from last year’s Christmas newsletter – we make a pretty cute couple, huh?!

That’s lovely. And you have a family?

Oh, yes. We’ve been lucky enough to have two litters so far, each with six pups. My pups are the most wonderful little coyotes in the world. Smart, good-looking, so clever and curious. They’re the apples of my eye. Clementine and I work really hard to raise our pups, keeping them well-fed and safe from predators. It’s a big job, but everything works better when we work together.

You can show your appreciation for forests and all the amazing things they give us by accepting the Fantastic Crafts and When to Make Them Mission today! You’ll find instructions for making Valentine’s Day cards out of materials like recycled cardboard and popsicle sticks, so get crafting – and Happy Valentine’s Day, Earth Rangers!

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Do YOU Have a Devious Draft at Home?

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Do YOU Have a Devious Draft at Home?

Now that winter is here, you might notice some unpleasant chilly breezes in certain parts of your house. It’s the dastardly work of one of Earth Rangers’ Most Wanted Energy Wasters: The Devious Draft!

Down with the Devious Draft!

How does this unwelcome house guest get into what should be your warm and comfy home? Through small cracks in walls and ceilings and around windows and doors, that’s how – we told you it was devious!

The worst part is that when the Devious Draft invades your place, it makes you use extra energy to keep the temperature toasty. So not only is it wasting energy, it’s also costing your family more money. Those are some pretty solid reasons to give this guest the boot!

The Draft Stops Here

What can be done to make sure winter at your home is warm and energy efficient? There’s a simple test you can do to find out if the Devious Draft has invaded: just run your hands around the edge of your windows and doors that lead outside (pay special attention to the bottom of your doors). If you feel air coming in, you’ve got a draft. Tell an adult and they can seal up the holes or repair door sweeps to keep the cold air out and the warmth in!

Want to save more energy?

The Devious Draft is just 1 of the 7 culprits we want you to stop as part of the Operation Conservation Mission! When you accept your Mission, you’ll protect your home from energy-wasters and help in the fight against climate change.

How many culprits will you stop? Accept the Operation Conservation Mission today!

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Podcast: LOL Mailbox: Rapid Fire Super Silly Animal Joke Special!

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Podcast: LOL Mailbox: Rapid Fire Super Silly Animal Joke Special!

Happy New Year, Earth Rangers! I hope everyone’s decade is off to an amazing start. I know mine is – amazingly hilarious, that is! Want to get in on the joke?

Just click the play button on the player below and get ready to laugh!

Check out the show notes for Season 2, Episode 16 and subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss an episode! Don’t forget to send your own animal story to enter our brand new contest!!

Time for a Ringed Seal Recap!

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Time for a Ringed Seal Recap!

Earth Rangers, we hope that after a year of being a Ringed Seal rescuer, you’re as excited about these perfect pinnipeds as we are! As we wrap up this project, let’s have a quick refresher course about what makes the world’s smallest seal so super.

1. Ringed Seals live in the Arctic, and spend lots of time swimming in the frigid waters (they can dive for up to 45 minutes at a time!). They don’t mind the chill because they have a thick layer of blubber to keep them warm.

Cold? Me?! Nope!

2. These seals enjoy cod – it’s what most of their diet is made of – but they’ll also eat other Arctic fish and shellfish.

3. Ringed Seals carve out snow dens to protect themselves from predators. Each den is built with a hole in the ice so they can grab a quick snack from the water below!

 4. Ringed Seals give birth to their babies (called pups) in special lairs on the ice. Arctic ice is super important because it allows the babies to be protected from predators like polar bears.

A baby Ringed Seal hangs out on the Arctic ice.

5. Ringed Seal pups are adorable – they have a fluffy white coat of fur!

6. Ringed Seal claws are REALLY sharp – they can dig through up to six feet of ice to reach the water.

A Successful Campaign

Earth Rangers has been working with the W. Garfield Weston Foundation and researchers from the University of Manitoba to investigate what type of habitat Ringed Seals like best, and what effect climate change will have on their habitat. Thanks to the hard work of about 7,000 Earth Rangers like you, we’ve been able to purchase satellite collars for the seals. The collars allow the research team to track the movements of the Ringed Seal – and boy, do they move a lot! Some of the Ringed Seals that were tracked traveled extremely far distances – some of the farthest ever recorded for this type of seal!

The Next Steps

Now that we know where Ringed Seals prefer to live, the next thing to figure out is the  ‘why’. Why do Ringed Seals choose certain habitats over others? Does it have to do with the depth of the water? Maybe water temperature or access to ice? Is climate change affecting the habitats these seals choose? Researchers are analyzing the data to try and answer those questions.  So far, one hypothesis is that it might be more common for Ringed Seals to travel farther distances than experts initially thought. In the future, researchers may put collars on more seals. The more data the researchers can collect, the more useful and complete the information they’re tracking will be.

This has been a hugely successful campaign, Earth Rangers, and we’ve learned so much important information about these adorable animals, thanks to you! The Ringed Seal is an Arctic icon, and we want to be sure it’s surviving and thriving for generations to come!

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Announcing the New Earth Rangers App!

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Announcing the New Earth Rangers App!

WOODBRIDGE, ON, Jan. 21, 2020 – Today, Earth Rangers launched its new app designed to provide children and families with a safe way to make a real and positive impact on the environment through learning and action. Building on the organization’s mission to create a generation of conservationists, the Earth Rangers App empowers kids and their families in the face of growing anxiety over the state of the planet.

Introducing – The Earth Rangers App from Earth Rangers on Vimeo

“We hear more about large-scale environmental challenges now than we ever have before, from climate change to plastics in our oceans to species extinction. At Earth Rangers, we have seen time and again that taking action—even in small ways—leaves kids feeling more optimistic about the future,” says Tovah Barocas, President of Earth Rangers. “We can transform anxiety into learning and passion through action. Our new app provides kids, and their parents, with a safe place to learn, talk, and act for nature.”

The app houses over two dozen fun and impactful missions that take the app experience offline by engaging kids in activities like shoreline clean-ups, battery recycling drives, conserving energy and creating butterfly gardens. The app also offers localized content, with missions that are customized by province or region so that members can learn about environmental issues relevant to where they live. Local events, such as tree planting and other on-the ground opportunities will be promoted to members in different parts of the country.

“Research shows that eco-anxiety is a real thing. It’s impacting children, as well as adults. We know parents are struggling with how to talk about these issues with their kids,” says Dr. Katie Hayes, the lead author of the upcoming chapter on mental health and climate change for the National Climate Change and Health Assessment. “The new Earth Rangers App gives parents and kids a safe and fun place to start having these conversations, while encouraging long lasting habits that positively impact the future of our planet.”

In addition to missions and local events, members are also able to symbolically “adopt” a wide range of Canadian species, with funds going towards conservation projects related to them, like habitat restoration or research and monitoring projects. Along with earning points with the adoption of a species, they will earn stars which help them earn a seat on the “conservation council” where they can vote on future conservation projects.

Other Earth Rangers app features include:

  • Virtual badges, leaderboards, and rewards for almost everything you do in the app;
  • Endless entertainment and inspiration through hours of educational videos and thousands of fascinating articles about animals and the environment;
  • Easy access to the award-winning Earth Rangers podcast;
  • Points based levelling system that allows you to journey through different habitats, unlocking cool animal facts along the way;
  • Customizable avatars that allow you to create your own virtual identity; and
  • The app is free to new and existing Earth Rangers’ members, with animal adoption fees completely optional and requiring parental permission. Free membership card and welcome package will be sent by mail when you complete your membership sign-up.

“Everyone at Earth Rangers is so excited to launch this app, from our conservation experts to our developers. We hope kids and parents can see that they can be part of the solution and have a blast doing it!” says Barocas.

The app is available to download

For more information and interview requests with Tovah Barocas or Katie Hayes, please contact David Troya-Alvarez, dtroya-alvarez@argylepr.com.

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