By Eden Fearnside, 7 years old Photos by Julia Fearnside My name is Eden and I think birds of prey are fascinating! Debbie Stewart is the hard-working Founder of Wingspan. She and her staff are an amazing group of people who look after birds of prey. We visited the Wingspan centre in Rotorua. I got […]

Continued Story from Wild Things issue 153 By Madeleine Aged 7 McKenzie bay is super cool, when I found it, I didn’t even intend to find it.  I was out fishing off the rocks and we saw an octopus in a rock pool at low tide. I saw the beach beyond the rocky point, which I hadn’t […]

An activity from our Ngahuru issue of Wild Things Rourke (7) biggest imageMatilda (5) bottom leftand Mum (top right) We think they turned out well.

Hoiho has been exploring my garden. He enjoyed listening to the happy bees visiting our beautiful flowering tree.He also met a new friend. Big hoiho and Tui were made for me and my brother by our lovely neighbour David. He is very clever and kind and put these up on the fence for us to […]

I noticed all the birds coming back again I to our backyard. We have got lots of Tuis, Kererus, Piwakawakas and the other day a pair of Faclons flew over. This morning we had this Bellbird sitting in front of the window which was very special!  Luca (7)

We have had some creative fun after exploring our backyard and collecting bits and bobs from the garden. Check out our bug creations, which look a lot like the Wēta! Mallory and April

By Emilie & Victoria Bruce  Hi kids, I’m Emilie, and my mum Victoria and I are walking the length of New Zealand (3,000kms) on Te Araroa trail.We’re discovering heaps of new things and taking photos of them to share on iNaturalist. Did you know that you can be a scientist too? By using iNaturalist, you […]

Report by Sam, Age 11 The other day I went for a bike ride around McCormacks bay and I saw a Kingfisher on a pole. Then at that very moment it swooped down and grabbed a crab! As we went on we say more cool birds. I saw a Black bird, a silver eye, a […]

By Kora Crawford Yay! I was with my Rotokare Ambassador friends on the bus. We all hopped out and were so excited. It was a beautiful sunny day, with a very slight wind blowing. We walked down the road past the campground and to the reserve. The manager handed out some thank you certificates to […]

By Adam Southerland I have done lots of planting with my family. We planted 40 plants by Lake Wanaka this weekend. We have also done plantings at Penrith Wetland, Glendhu Wetland, Albert Town Lagoon and by lake Wanaka. We planted native trees, flaxes and grasses. The plants help keep the water clean in our lake. […]