Elbow Lake Trail Guide vs Explore & Play

Enhance your visit to the Elbow Lake Environmental Education Centre (ELEEC) with this highly informative and interactive guide. Explore the Elbow Lake property and trails. Learn about its diverse environmental and cultural features, and how both have been affected by a dynamic, changing landscape. As the public outreach arm of the Queen's University Biological Station, the ELEEC facilitates research in biodiversity conservation and the environmental sciences on the Elbow Lake property. We invite you to share in some of the fascinating discoveries of our researchers. This app is the essential travel companion for visitors to Elbow Lake, but will also be of value to those curious about the area's human history, invasive and at-risk species, and local Citizen Science initiatives. Located within the Frontenac Arch, one of ten biodiversity hotspots in Ontario, the Elbow Lake property is co-owned by Queen's University and the Nature Conservancy of Canada, and protected as a nature reserve. The trail network is managed by the Elbow Lake Environmental Education Centre. For more information, please visit http://www.elbowlakecentre.ca. Features: • Fourteen interpretive stations, complete with sound files, video, local photography and links to external data. • Virtual geocache option to navigate between stations. • Maps and station information that will be stored on your device, once downloaded. • Interactive Elbow Lake property trail map. 
 • Quizzes to test your knowledge!

"Dive into the free app “Explore & Learn” by Toronto Zoo to discover the challenges faced by animals in the Arctic and the rainforests of Indonesia, plus what you can do to help. In “On Thin Ice”, you will learn how climate change is disrupting the delicate balance of life in the Arctic. Shrinking sea ice is a huge problem for Arctic wildlife, especially polar bears. Polar bears cannot survive without sea ice. With “On Thin Ice”, you’ll get up close and personal with life-sized AR Arctic animals and learn about their amazing adaptations and the challenges they face due to climate change. You can even be a polar bear and hunt for seals in the VR sea ice game. Try to catch as many seals as you can and gain enough weight before the ice melts! At each stop, you can make a climate action pledge to protect polar bears and other Arctic animals. In “Rainforest Guardians”, you will learn how wild orangutans are guardians of the rainforests of Indonesia. They shape the ecosystem and help make it possible for all the other plants and animals to live there, too. Unfortunately, rainforests are under threat. Trees are cut down to make way for roads, logging, and palm oil plantations. As the only home for wild orangutans, we need to defend rainforests. Experience first-hand what it takes to be a Rainforest Guardian. You can search for plants and animals in a VR rainforest and unlock the bonus Nature Cam; fly a drone to search for orangutan nests; be like a Toronto Zoo Keeper and perform a health care check; and virtually shop for products made with sustainable palm oil. You can even observe the orangutans at the Toronto Zoo to help us better understand how they use their habitat. Complete each activity to earn your Rainforest Guardian badge!"