Did you know… Canada’s 138 native tree species have at least 40 known pharmaceutical or medical uses! Say thanks to the plants that help keep us healthy.
http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=222
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Since the year 1750, Canada has lost the Great Auk, Passenger Pigeon, Labrador Duck, Dawson caribou, sea mink, Banff longnose dace, deepwater cisco, longjaw cisco, and blue walleye.
http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=222
2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and Earth Rangers has teamed up with The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to bring you a daily dose of biodiversity basics
Seventy percent of the world’s species are found in just 12 countries: Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Mexico, Peru and Democratic Republic of Congo.
http://www.scidev.net/en/features/biodiversity-facts-and-figures-1.html
2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and Earth Rangers has teamed up with The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to bring you a daily dose of biodiversity basics
A giant stick insect (we mean GIANT) was discovered in Borneo in 2008. It’s called Chan’s Megastick and measures 57 centimetres long!
http://species.asu.edu/2009_species02
2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and Earth Rangers has teamed up with The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to bring you a daily dose of biodiversity basics
The Great lakes Basin is the largest freshwater lake system on Earth but it isn’t the only freshwater found in North American. In fact, the Canadian portion of the great lakes makes up only 10% of all the freshwater in Canada! In total, Canada has 891 163 kilometers squared of freshwater, or 9% of the world’s freshwater. This means that Canada has the largest surface area of freshwater of any country in the world!
http://www.ec.gc.ca/eau-water/default.asp?lang=En&n=51E3DE0C-1
2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and Earth Rangers has teamed up with The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to bring you a daily dose of biodiversity basics
We love to get messages from kids telling us all about their latest and greatest adventures, and that’s why I am so excited to share with you this letter from Kathleen, who had some pretty awesome stuff happen this summer.
Dear Earth Rangers,
My name is Kathleen and I’m an Earth Ranger. One day my friends and I were watching TV at my Grandma’s cottage when we saw your ad! One of my friends, Stevie, who’s 8, said we should check out the website some time. His brother Jack, 10, my brother Rob, 13 and I, 11, agreed, so we were all on board with the idea. We decided that right then was the perfect time!
So we went on line to www.bringbackthewild.com and discovered what it was all about! We couldn’t decide which animal to help, so we picked out of a hat: A grizzly!
We discussed what we could do: go from house to house collecting money and raising awareness, play music in town, make posters etc. But nothing seemed right…Plus it was our last day at our summer vacation cottage, as we would be leaving the next day!
To add to the mix, I had a friend Jaya whom I hadn’t seen all summer, so naturally, she was coming over that afternoon! Once she arrived we played but we could not get over the fact we hadn’t helped out animals in danger! So we shared our idea with her!
We decided it would be good if we made posters and held them at the top of the driveway! That way maybe we would get more people to go to the website. Then Rob had a wonderful idea!! A lemonade stand!!!! We had some lemonade in the freezer, which we quickly whipped up while Rob stapled our posters to pieces of wood. We then took an old wooden chest cover and two stools to make a table. We brought napkins, lemonade, cookies and glasses! We were set up at 5 o’clock, as people were coming home after a hot day’s work and getting ready for supper.
We placed our stand at an intersection where drivers have to slow down not far from the beach. We made a sign on the beach and held our posters beside the road.
Many people stopped and we ran out of lemonade and had to run to our homes for more. Jack and Stevie’s Mom brought cookies, crackers and cheese, and carrots too.
All in all, it was a wonderful success as we were very busy. Instead of a fixed price we asked for donations. People believed it was a good cause and made donations up to $10.00!
Thank you soooooo much for encouraging young kids to raise money to help us have a better future. I believe that we helped a grizzly bear or two!
Thanks again
Earth Rangers
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The boreal forest isn’t just an amazing water storehouse, it also holds onto a ton of carbon. More than 208 billion tonnes of carbon are stored in the trees, soil and water that lives in the Canadian Boreal forest – that’s about 26 years’ worth of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions!
http://www.borealcanada.ca/boreal-did-you-know-e.php
2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and Earth Rangers has teamed up with The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to bring you a daily dose of biodiversity basics
About half of the world’s identified species are insects. The largest group of insects is the beetles, with 300,000 species!
http://www.cbin.ec.gc.ca/education/faits-facts.cfm?lang=eng
2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and Earth Rangers has teamed up with The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to bring you a daily dose of biodiversity basics
Sharks just got a whole lot sneakier and awesome. Scientists have discovered that some shark species can emit light, creating an optical illusion that makes them invisible to other creatures!
http://news.discovery.com/history/editors-picks-invisible-sharks-dinos-with-big-horns-and-more.html
2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and Earth Rangers has teamed up with The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to bring you a daily dose of biodiversity basics
The Canadian prairie are beautiful but they also have a big human footprint. The Canadian prairies are one of the most intensively developed landscapes in the entire world.
http://www.cbin.ec.gc.ca/education/faits-facts.cfm?lang=eng
2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and Earth Rangers has teamed up with The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to bring you a daily dose of biodiversity basics
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