Meet Elara, a fourth-year Environmental Sciences student with a passion for wildlife conservation. Growing up in a small town with a family of nature enthusiasts, she spent her childhood exploring wetlands and studying local ecosystems. Elara is known among her peers as the "Goose Guardian," often organizing community projects to protect nesting sites. She's currently working on a unique thesis project that involves tracking goose populations, which is why she’s on an egg scavenger hunt at the University of Waterloo!