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Town Belt Kaitiaki
Town Belt Kaitiaki (TBK) is a student-led education programme for Dunedin schools and ECE centres.
The SLT has been hard at work over the![]()
last week! We held our monthly meeting last Tuesday, where we focused on maintaining our paths at the Role Model Site and measuring soil temperature.![]()
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The Podcast team has also been making great![]()
progress, and we are looking forward to sharing it with you all soon!! Our trapping roster has been successful over the last term, and we are pleased to say that this will continue in Term 4. Thanks to all of our volunteers and students who have made Term 3 fantastic for TBK!
TBK Student Leaders Phoebe and Simon from Town Belt Kaitiaki held a stall last weekend as part of a Backyard Biodiversity Workshop at Tūhura Otago Museum. They talked to visitors very knowledgeably about Feeding Birds and Identifying Pests through their footprints.![]()
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Organiser Connal McLean says the event ended up having over 1700 folks come for the workshop throughout the day. ![]()
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What a fabulous effort by our TBK Student Leaders, Tūhura Otago Museum and The Entomological Society of NZ - especially Connal!
BALANCING ACTION WITH PLANNING![]()
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This week the students enjoyed planting natives in three areas of their Role Model Site in the Town Belt - riparian planting by the stream, sub canopy planting under mature trees and planting to add biodiversity to an area dominated by Coprosma autumnalis. ![]()
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Afterwards, during their indoor meeting, they planned activities for the upcoming months that include trapping, planting, track-making and making podcasts for radio! Plenty of talk - and time for making nature mandalas too!
CONSERVATION WEEK ACTIVITY BY TBK AND JOHN McGLASHAN COLLEGE![]()
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This afternoon members of the TBK Student Leadership Team were joined by a keen group of students from John McGlashan College, also a TBK school, in a one hour planting frenzy to improve existing bush around the playing field at Prospect Park. ![]()
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Together the students planted over 50 native trees and shrubs into bare gaps within existing bush, as well as some new planting. It was a pleasure to work in warm sunshine!![]()
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Many thanks to JMC students and their teachers, to the DCC for helping with our plans and providing our trees, and to Delta for delivering them. And of course our keen TBK students for their good mahi. #conservationweek2023 Department of Conservation
Nestled in bush between Signal Hill Reserve and Dunedin's Town Belt - Logan Park High School was a perfect setting for our Teacher Professional Development Workshop yesterday. We covered topics from planting for forest succession, natural regeneration, to weeding - all with the purpose of restoring our precious Town Belt.![]()
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We visited a piece of the Town Belt that TBK has helped LPHS 'adopt'. They've started weeding here as well as collecting rubbish with the aim of helping native bush regenerate naturally.![]()
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In this photo, Simon, Co-chair of the Student Leaders speaks to our Link Teachers about about some of the activities of the TBK Student Leadership Team. ![]()
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Many thanks to our speakers DCC Biodiversity Officer Zoe Lunniss and Otago University Assoc Prof Janice Lord and to our host Heike Cebulla-Elder from LPHS!