Making Popcorn to Save Penguins
Southland Branch
—CHRIS RANCE,
combination, but making popcorn was the way Room 7 at Waverley Park School raised funds to help the hoiho — the yellow-eyed penguin — at Forest and Bird’s Te Rere |: may seem an unusual
Reserve in Southland. Hoiho is one of the rarest penguins in the world and is found only in New Zealand and its offshore islands. The class spent a month studying the penguin, making
posters, paintings and displays around their classroom. The class then decided to do some fundraising and were looking for a local project to give the money to — Southland Forest and Bird’s Te Rere penguin
reserve was the lucky recipient. The pupils had studied Te Rere on the Southland Forest and Bird web site and knew all about the devastating fire that had happened a few years ago. Since the fire the main effort at Te Rere has been planting 1000 native plants a year and ongoing animal pest control. The money from the popcorn will be used to buy native plants for Te Rere.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 314, 1 November 2004, Page 43
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