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| School native garden area |
EDIT: THANK YOU to Nicole, Duncan and others for sending through your photos of your lizard hotel set up at home! Great job! See below for photos.
For the last four weeks our Year 5 / 6 Enviro students have been working with the Pest Free Howick expert Ethan.
During these sessions they learnt about invasive pests in New Zealand, native trees and native birds. They have set up trakka tunnels to see what pest animals might be around at our school and looked at real (stuffed) pest animals.
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| Aimee and the cat 'Stormy' looking for rats! |
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| Although cute, hedgehogs are a pest species in NZ as they eat bird eggs and lizards |
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| Tyler with his kowhai he grew from seeds |
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| Visit to our native garden |
In the last session we designed a lizard friendly garden using a special corrugated lizard shelter.
Some students opted to take these home and set up a lizard sanctuary for native lizards at their house.
In order for these to be successful the lizards also need to have access to food - native plants and creepy crawly bugs, water and plenty of places to hide from predators.
At the end of the session we visited the Year 3/ 4 'lizard lounge' area by the hall. We thought about if it had everything the lizards needed and what feedback we could give the year 3/ 4 group.
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