Forest Protectors- Our Trip to Centennial Bush Reserve

This week we learnt all about being kaitiaki of our environment during our visit to Centennial Bush with Te Motu Kairangi. 

Some of our Social Positive Purpose Group made a movie about the day: 

On the walk we did a lot of activities. I will let you know what we learnt. 

At the kereru nest one, we learnt that kererus can in fact get drunk on the berries they eat and that is when they are most vulnerable and when its predators attack them and that is why they were endangered. 

In the second one with Nicola, we sketched the living plants and things. I did a thing with the leaves where you put them under the page and rub your pencil over it to make a kind of leaf skeleton. 

In the one with Nik, we did a thing were we tried to estimate how many living things were in a square metre. On my square metre there were about 20-30 living bugs and someone actually found a massive spider that if you make a circle with your thumb and index finger it would be as big as the hole in between. 

We also did a thing on a walk to the higher bushes and we talked about birds and adaptation and how some birds adapt to a new habitat and some don't. Also birds get killed by mammals because they stay still but the mammals don't hunt by sight, they hunt by scent. They die because birds hunt by sight so the birds aren't used to mammals.

By Sammy