Year 6 Estuary Animal Champions

 

Today Year Six revised how we can categorise the estuary animals into endemic, native, introduced and pest.  We want to promote which animals live in our local estuary so people value the esturary and it's biodiversity. We were lucky enought to have eDNA information about the animals living in the estuary from the Wakaaranga Eco Warriors - Wilderlab eDNA Report for Wakaaranga Creek

We thought about how to champion the animals in our local estuary:

Ruby said posters to display down at the estuary.

Elizabeth added we could create a play or video with estuary animals in it.  Ticket sales could support environmental groups.

Tai suggested creating short informative videos.

We broke into groups to plan our campaigns.

K1 groups - 

White Faced Heron Group

Cockles Group

Springtail Group

Pied Shag Group

Snapper Group

Banded Kokopu

Mosquito Fish Group

Short Finned Eel

K3 Groups:

Short finned eel

Kingfisher

Mud Crab

Morepork

Oyster Catcher

Pied Stilt

Red Bill Seagull

Godwit

K2 Groups:

Tui

Fantail

Pukeko

Variable Oyster Catcher

Godwit

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