Head to the Adoptions Section in the App or visit the Earth Rangers Shop! Get an Earth Rangers Field Notes Notebook FREE with a Plush Adoption Kit until April 30.
Head to the Adoptions Section in the App or visit the Earth Rangers Shop! Get an Earth Rangers Field Notes Notebook FREE with a Plush Adoption Kit until April 30.
What is your favourite thing about narwhals? Let us know in the comments!
It’s Earth Month and things are about to get WILD at Earth Rangers HQ! We
have some CRAZY surprises lined up for you that we can’t wait to UNLEASH! First
up:
Introducing the Earth Rangers Field Notes Notebook!
This is the perfect place for you to write down all of your wildlife encounters, animal-saving activities and eco-stories. The best part? It’s FREE with any plush adoption kit!
Animals are taking over the Blog!
Animals have taken over the Wild Wire Blog, and surprisingly, they’re taking turns! Each week a new animal will take the lead on all the posts and Eco-Activities. Come back this Sunday to find out who’s first!
Earth Month has us seeing double! Get 2x the points for plush and digital adoptions all month long!
We’ve gotten tons of great guesses on Part 1 of the Pixel Puzzler, and now it’s time for the answer. Are you ready for the great reveal? Find out if you got it right!
Use the decoder key below to figure out the secret message! Let us know if you figure it out, but don’t give away the answer so other people can play too.
Use the first letter from each word in code vault in the app to get 10 bonus points!
RAWR! It’s not just the sound a bear makes, it’s also the name of one of our favourite Missions! RAWR stands for Respect Animals While Recycling, and it’s something we think everyone should do. But how? We’ll show you in today’s Eco-Activity!
Animals are attracted to our stinky garbage and recycling. When they come to check it out, they’re at risk of getting seriously hurt. Follow these tips and keep animals safe:
Make sure you wash out all of your bottles, jars, cans and other containers so the smell of food doesn’t attract animals. Crush your pop cans and turn their tabs to cover the opening so small animals can’t crawl in.
Cut up six-pack rings (and the ear bands on your masks) so animals don’t get tangled up in them.
If your organics are smelly, store them in a freezer to reduce the odour.
If you have curbside pickup, wait until the morning of collection day to put your stuff out. That way it won’t attract nighttime critters.
The Earth Rangers App is where kids go to save animals! It’s free to join and you’ll have access to real-world Missions like this one. Plus, you can adopt an animal to support conservation projects, and learn all about animals in the Wild Wire Blog.
Find activities like this, and so much more in the App!
They might look like a zebra, but okapis are actually part of the giraffe family! These zebra-like stripes help them blend into the vegetation and dead leaves found in the forests of Congo where they live!
Guess what, Earth Rangers? Last year we asked you to band together for badgers who needed your help, and thanks to your amazing support, our partners at Nature Conservancy Canada (NCC) did a ton of amazing work for these animals under threat.
British Columbia’s Kootenay River Ranch is home to some of the province’s few remaining badgers, but its shift from a mix of open grassland habitat to a more densely forested landscape was making it less ideal for badgers who need grasslands to survive. NCC is working hard to restore the grassland habitat by doing things like thinning dense tree thickets and planning controlled wildfires to mimic the ones that happened more in the past, and they made some awesome progress last year. Here’s some highlights!
Successfully thinned 144 hectares of open forest
habitat
Treated 64 different sites for invasive plants, removing
things like knapweed, cinquefoil, and hawkweed – all species that make it
harder for native grasses to survive
Installed deer guards to protect young
vegetation from hungry deer!
Besides being amazing habitat for animals like the American badger, the Kootenay River Ranch provides some amazing views too!
But the work is not done yet… which is why we’re excited to announce this amazing project will continue this year! NCC is planning to thin an additional 98 hectares over the winter and into the spring, and we are excited to keep supporting their incredible efforts.
Join the hundreds of Earth Rangers who supported the badger project last year by purchasing a Wildlife Adoption Kit today!
Hi bee buddies! Spring is just around the corner, and as we dig out from the snow we thought we’d check in with our partners at NCC to hear about how their year of unBEElievable conservation work went!
The last time we checked, the team had just received the native seed mix they needed to plant in Saskatchewan’s Key West property. They were waiting to plant it until winter, when it would get planted with winter wheat to help it grow healthy and full of nutrients. They’d already done lots to get the space ready for planting, including controlling weeds throughout the summer, and another 40 acre spot on the property that had been previously planted after the same process saw great success with its native blooms – super promising! That means it’s only a matter of time before this native mix blooms too and the western bumblebee has tons of amazing new habitat to enjoy!
This amazing project would not have been possible without the hundreds of amazing Earth Rangers who purchased an Adoption Kit to protect our bee buddies last year. Keep up the good work, animal-saving heroes! Check out the Adoptions Section in the Earth Rangers App to see what new projects we’re supporting this year, and keep up the great work, animal-saving heros!