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Town Belt Kaitiaki
Town Belt Kaitiaki (TBK) is a student-led education programme for Dunedin schools and ECE centres.
Episode 7 on EVERYTHING BUGS, INSECTS AND CREEPY CRAWLIES.![]()
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Hurray! The Town Belt Kaitiaki student leadership team are back with their Town Belt Kaitiaki Podcast.![]()
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Anya, Ridima and Saanvika lead a super fun and very informative episode about all sorts of invertebrates in the Town Belt and beyond! Listen in! ![]()
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This episode is 100% student led and created! Well done guys! And thanks to OAR FM for your support.![]()
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7 - Everything bugs, insects and creepy crawlies
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A student-led podcast from the students of Town Belt Kaitiaki, covering the unique biodiversity of Dunedin's Town Belt, how we can protect it, and offer insight into Town Belt Kaitiaki's activities.
I'm marvellously excited TBK has got on international news, and with the prestigious radio station NPR no less! Congratulations Mila and Finn! And thank you City Sanctuary for making this opportunity possible and for all your help - we are so grateful and we love working with you! 💚
To save its rare birds, New Zealand is relying on a nation of backyard trappers
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New Zealand's unique birds are at risk of extinction, like the kiwi. So the country is trying to eradicate the invasive species that prey on them. Everyday people are lining up to help.
TRAP TRAINING FOR OUR TBK STUDENT LEADERS![]()
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Our TBK Role Model Site in Robin Hood Park has a TBK managed Trapline again - yay!![]()
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Six keen student leaders (Yr 7 to 11) checked out the new City Sanctuary installed trapline and received careful training from Kate and Lizzy on some new as well as familiar traps. The students will start supervised trap checking soon.![]()
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Dunedin, the Town Belt and our TBK students are incredibly fortunate to have the support of City Sanctuary who invest in the next generation of trappers as well as the DCC who support their mahi through Predator Free Dunedin. The birds are increasing! This year we have five tui regularly visiting our Role Model Site - well up on last year!
SLT SEPTEMBER MONTHLY MEETING & FOLLOW UP WEEDING![]()
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Our Student Leadership Team were very busy weeding in at their Role Model Site in Robin Hood Park last week. We have oodles of onion weed and even worse - aluminium plant - from a historical dumping approximately 8 years ago. Aluminium weed is very shade tolerant and will prevent all new native forest regeneration as well as smothering ferns and small plants.![]()
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However with good work from the student leaders at the monthly meeting last week and an intense two hours of follow-up weeding by myself, Mathew and Michelle yesterday, we removed all of the aluminium plant at one corner of our site as well as many bags of onion weed. Yes it will come back, but less so, the students are definitely winning at this particular patch!