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Town Belt Kaitiaki
Town Belt Kaitiaki (TBK) is a student-led education programme for Dunedin schools and ECE centres.
JULY MONTHLY MEETING![]()
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There was a mind-boggling frenzy of activity this month as the students whizzed about and did four activities in one hour! Tree releasing, track maintenance, setting up some footprint monitoring cards in tracking tunnels and weeding aluminium plant. Amazingly it all happened!![]()
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After lunch and a 5 minute bird count, we make our 1.5 km walk down to the Dunedin Community House for some planning. The Discovery Planning group are organising a bird activity that will happen with Otago University students, the Media Group are collecting stories and photos to update the Website and the Hands On group are planning some stream monitoring and pest monitoring.![]()
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The future looks brighter in the hands of young people likes our TBK Student Leaders!
GROWING THE BUSH!![]()
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Last Tuesday we had a wonderful time planting with DNI and Logan Park High school students at Brackens Lookout. At this site we are planting at the northern end now to add to the bush there and at the same time to preserve the view at this lovely spot. The students also removed old guards and did some tree releasing to remove grass immediately next to previously planted plants - still more to do!![]()
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Some of the trees from the last few years are growing magnificently, especially te kouka cabbage trees. They will bring in birds. ![]()
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The other thing that will bring in birds is the longer grass! We really appreciate that the grass amongst the trees has been let to get a little long here. Some DNI students and more recently our TBK student leaders have done studies to show how much this benefits flies! A pair of piwakawaka fantails were having a feast while I was tidying up! ![]()
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Everything is connected.![]()
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Many thanks to DNI and LPHS teachers, all the students and our TBK Volunteers for all their mahi. And to the DCC and Delta for provision and delivery of trees!
Fabulous article about our efforts in Predator Free New Zealand Trust! Thanks PFNZ and well done Mathew and the TBK Student Leadership Team!
It's cool to care: Dunedin's youth get trapping
predatorfreenz.org
Year 12 student Mathew Campbell is teaching younger students how to check traps in the Ōtepoti (Dunedin) town belt.
Did you make it to see the TBK Student Leadership Group's stall at the International Science Festival?![]()
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Maybe not quite as big at the Bowie appreciation concert - but getting up there!😁![]()
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Anyway our staill was very popular and the students did a brilliant job at creating and running interactive activities about invertebrates in the Town Belt as well as sharing the results of their Bugs in the Grass study. The results of the study by the way were absolutely clear - increasing grass length greatly increases flying insects. (Ie food for our piwakawaka, riroriro and nestling feeding birds). Another good reason to mow less often!
Did you make it to see the TBK Student Leadership Group's stall at the International Science Festival?![]()
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Maybe not quite as big as the Bowie appreciation concert - but getting up there!😁![]()
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Anyway our staill was very popular and the students did a brilliant job at creating and running interactive activities about invertebrates in the Town Belt as well as sharing the results of their Bugs in the Grass study. The results of the study by the way were absolutely clear - increasing grass length greatly increases flying insects. (Ie food for our piwakawaka, riroriro and nestling feeding birds). Another good reason to mow less often!