School/Group Visits
Environmental or conservation-based education plays a vital role in engaging and inspiring our community to take action in their own backyard. At Kaipupu Wildlife Sanctuary we believe that experience based activities capture the hearts and minds by engaging the senses - touch, sight, sound and smell. For our school or group visits it is about experiences beyond the classroom. Local students learn about the native plants and animals present on the Sanctuary and are involved in practical restoration of the Sanctuary.
We have an environmental education programme that can be tailored to suit the needs of school groups from kindergartens to secondary level.
This includes concepts like:
• New Zealand’s endemic/native species – animals and plants
• Food chains/webs and ecosystems – why these are important for biodiversity
• Succession processes in a native forest
• Threats to endemic/native species
• Conservation methods – translocations, monitoring, predator proof fences, trapping and tracking techniques
• Role of community groups in species conservation
We have an environmental education programme that can be tailored to suit the needs of school groups from kindergartens to secondary level.
This includes concepts like:
• New Zealand’s endemic/native species – animals and plants
• Food chains/webs and ecosystems – why these are important for biodiversity
• Succession processes in a native forest
• Threats to endemic/native species
• Conservation methods – translocations, monitoring, predator proof fences, trapping and tracking techniques
• Role of community groups in species conservation
CONSERVATIONAndrew John, our educator explains the work being undertaken at Kaipupu Wildlife Sanctuary to protect our native species.
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THREATENED SPECIESKaipupu Wildlife Sanctuary is home to a number of threatened species including Little Penguins. We are also part of DOC's Operation Nest Egg.
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RESTORATIONSchools and groups can be part of the restoration process - planting trees is one option.
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