Myrtle Rust

Kauri dieback

Predator Free 2050 summary in our own words

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Predator Free 2050

85 million years ago NZ was one of the first countries to split apart from Gondwanaland. Gondwanaland is when all the land in the whole Earth was together in one big country - they split up and became the continents. This meant that the only mammals NZ has, either swan here or flew here.

Because NZ is an island with no mammals, the birds, insects etc became defenseless (because they had no predators to hide from). Maori and Europeans settlers killed lots of animals, and brought with them predators from other countries (for example possums, rats, stoats, dogs).

Those predators brought here by settlers, have destroyed our native birds/plants. NZ has one of the worst extinction records of any nation in the world.

NZ has been trying to control the pests by using traps, poisoning but it hasn’t really worked. We need to work together to control the pests.

It is everyone’s responsibility to control pests and protect native species - all New Zealanders.

The Possum Problem Wednesday Reading task

The Possum Problem

PB4L EXPECTATIONS

Goal sheet

Name:Lia
Term 1, 2020	My Goals
	I need to: Vocab  Read more chapter Books Find meanings of long words
	I need to: Use language features Use more complex punctuation More expressions
	I need to: Percentages Go up levels Fractions Divisions strategies
KEY COMPETENCIES My goal is to  focus on learning  confidently share ideas and thoughts in a group Join Every sport Show school values

Monday reading task