My favorite tree facts are: 1. The nurse log fact; how the nurse log can hold so much live forms. 2. How big fern trees can be, even 20 Meter! And smaller fern trees canbe smaller than the pinky finger. And this is me planting a Hebe at Matuku link reserve in Bethellsyesterday on our […]

By Sophia age 8 I took the great opportunity to look at the birds during the Garden Bird Survey week. It is a nationwide citizen science project that encourage people to get out and count all the birds for one hour.  I sat down with my mum and recorded all the birds and the highest […]

Written by Stanley (age 7) from North Canterbury  At night we can hear Little Owls outside. I have written an article about a home that we made for the Little Owls. One evening my Dad came home from work and he told me that we could build an owl house because his friend gave him […]

Today me and my brother went to Waitangi and found some Penguin houses near a beach. Little Blue Penguins/ Korora are the world’s smallest penguin at 25cm high. They can dive to a depth of 70 metres. They spend most of the day fishing at sea, coming ashore at dusk to roost. They are native […]

My neighbour Mrs. Hill gave me a bucket of tadpoles. The tadpoles were like 3 cm fat. I had been waiting a little while but they came. We set up a black tub with part of an old rabbit cage on top so the cats couldn’t get in. I went to the farm to get […]

We went to Zealandia. When we got there the water in the lower dam was only 4 or 5 meters deep. They are emptying it because of the perch (kokopu). Perch are not a New Zealand species of fish and they are eating the very tiny animals which were supposed to be eating the algae, […]

Kia ora! I am Ezra, for Christmas I received a membership for Kiwi Conservation Club. I can’t wait to make a bird feeder! I drew this picture with the stickers, I like the stickers too! I also found a worm in my chicken nest box. I don’t think it is a native worm like the […]

I loved the idea of making tracking tunnels!We had to cut the cardboard into 5 bits.Then we had to hold it and tape it together. We were looking for some tracking tunnels.Pete was telling us about how tracking tunnels help us track invasive species. Blog post by KCC member, Emma (age 8)

It all started on January 1st when my family and I decided to go on a day trip. We went  to a beach called Te Arai where we expected  some very good waves to boogie-board on we spent about 4 hours playing in the waves and eating before things really started to happen… My sister […]

Me and my grandma went to the Brook Sanctuary on Saturday for a KCC activity. We all gathered around at the house as Katrina took the roll. Then Rick showed us some wetas his son had caught in some jars. We had some time to explore the house and press the buttons with bird calls. […]