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Northland Native Bird Recovery Centre: Helping Our Native Birds
By Eden (age 6) My name is Eden and I love native birds. During the lockdowns, my family learnt all about different New Zealand animals. For our kiwi week, we did lots of activities and made things all about kiwis. We visited the Native Bird Recovery Centre in Whangarei. We saw a talking tui and […]

New Zealand’s smallest and most endangered frog
By Memory (age 13) from Howick Intermediate Archey’s frogs are the smallest most endangered amphibians in New Zealand. They were once very common in many areas in New Zealand, but due to a disease called chytridiomycosis that’s not the case anymore. Chytridiomycosis is a disease that mainly affects amphibians. It’s a type of infectious fungus […]

Keeping kiwi safe
By Milan (age 12) from Howick Intermediate Kiwi are the most well known native bird of Aotearoa, but, kiwi are also slowly dying because of the threats they need to handle. There is a high possibility that kiwis will go extinct if things don’t change. Kiwi are facing three main problems: predators, loss of habitat, […]

The Pūkeko

Plastic’s killing the environment
By Aila (age 9) Plastic pollution causes harm to humans, animals and plants through toxic pollutants. It can take hundreds or even thousands of years for plastic to break down so the environmental damage is long lasting. It affects everything in the food chain from plankton to whales. In 1992, a shipping container filled with […]

Nothing but bones
By Lucia (age 11) from Howick Intermediate Yes, I’m talking about that again… You guessed it! Endangered species. But before you leave this site and think about what a waste of time that was, have you actually put much thought into this? Extinction means they are never EVER going to come back, and you are […]

The plastic jellyfish

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