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Town Belt Kaitiaki
Town Belt Kaitiaki (TBK) is a student-led education programme for Dunedin schools and ECE centres.
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!
Rain descended at the TBK Student Leaders' June Monthly Meeting so the students spent their time indoors planning, particularly for their NZ International Science Festival that's coming up.![]()
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The students will be personing a stall this Wednesday 15th July 10-3.30pm in the Festival Hub in the Wall St Mall, 211 George St. The focus is Bugs! They will share their findings about the abundance of insects they found in grass, as well as having a number of interactive fun activities they have created for you to do!![]()
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Please come and see us!
SEEDLINGS NATURALLY REGENERATING![]()
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TBK Student leaders were busy in their Role Model Site yesterday creating vegetation quadrats to measure the native and non-native young plants that are coming up in different parts of the reserve.![]()
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In places where lots of different young native species were seen clumped together - all we had to do was look up! There above us was invariably a nice horizontal branch perfect for pooping birds to sit on! ![]()
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It's no surprise that birds and plants are better at planting than us - they've had a lot more practice. However that won't stop us planting in places where seedlings aren't coming through for various reasons.
MAKING THE TOWN BELT EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL - ONE PLANT AT A TIME![]()
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Year three students and our two TBK Student Leaders with St Joseph's Cathedral School were busy last week in their adopted spot in the Town Belt in Robin Hood Park. There are big trees here, mostly exotic and an understory that consists primarily of ivy, tradescantia, aluminium weed and bare ground. The students planted 30 shrubs, ferns and bush flaxes to help build a native understory.![]()
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This is an ongoing job for St Joseph's - a wonderful project! For many students it is their first time planting, so rather exciting for them. And there is always the fun of finding a worm. ![]()
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The goal is to restore the native hauora of this site. The mature exotic trees play a part too - providing shade and a future cavity home perhaps for kaka!