Knowledge+Saturation

**KNOWLEDGE SATURATION ** D.O.C is New Zealands Department of Conservation, they work together with the country's Zoos to protect native animals of New Zealand by creating safe, pest free reserves and habitats for the animals to live in. We learnt about many of the programs in plaace to help save native creaures like the kiwi, pukeko and maui's dolphine as well as many other s. || 
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Click this link; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Be5XYhkEnI To watch a video about the kiwi and how we can save these unique creatures.

This video taught us about the what we can do to save our native bird the kiwi || At Willowbank Wildlife Reserve they have a diverse range of native and endemic New Zealand animals.This website explains what habitats and foods native animals need to survive. We learnt that 88% of all kiwi chicks in the north island will be killed within 100 days of hatching and that stoats are the most destructive predator of the kiwi and that 40% of all kiwi deaths are caused by them!
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http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Kids/NZBirdsAnimals/YellowEyedPenguin/

This website is the Christchurch libraries website and it gives lots of great fast facts.

From this website we learnt that the Yellow Eyed penguin (or hoiho in Maori), gets its name from its distinctive markings which include its yellow eyes and head markings. || media type="youtube" key="L-2oYv67Udk" width="425" height="350"

How to feed a kereru. Click this link [] to go and see the actual website. This video will tell you some facts about the kereru while watching a person feed one that was blown out of its nest in a storm.

We learnt how the kereru likes to eat banana, kiwifruit, passion-fruit and that they are very tidy creatures. || http://www.aucklandzoo.co.nz/default.asp?sectionID=129 Auckland Zoo is New Zealands largest zoo, they have many native animals and a lot of programs to help save New Zealands native animals the first link is a direct link to their website and the other is about their conservation programs for New Zealands native animals. || media type="youtube" key="S3bGM3Fzclk" height="327" width="399" We learnt that the kakapo is a very curious bird and they eat most parts of the plant. There are only 90 kakapo left in the whole world and are only found in New Zealand. The Kakapo is flightless and is very intelligent. The word Kakapo means parrot-of-the-night in Maori. Did you know kakapo's can swim. They have to to protect them from danger. If you would like to go to the original site click here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3bGM3Fzclk ||
 * http://www.aucklandzoo.co.nz
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This site answers the Question "Why New Zealand's native birds are easily threatened by animals such as stoats, rats etc.

From this website I learnt that colonies of ferrets make nests in areas where there is no competition from similarly sized predators so it is safe to raise their young. || media type="youtube" key="-xV2il-MYqE" height="344" width="425" ||
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DOC is a group of Conservationists who care for vast amounts of New Zealand land and also the Native animals who live on this land. On this page you can see things like the a-z of animals of NZ birds. You can also see these names in diferent categories such as land birds and sea and shore birds.

This link taught us how to attract different native animals to your back garden. You can do things like put down mulch or leaf litter to attract insect eating birds like the Silvereye, Grey Warbler and Fantail. || We learnt about a lady called Nic Hurring, who local people call 'Pigeon Girl', looks after sick or injured kereru in a special aviary in her back yard. The kereru are supplied with all the trees that they would normally live off in the wild, but they are also fed peas and some types of fruit. Once she even had a drunk pigeon who had eaten warm peaches. Warm peaches make kereu a little dizzy. ||
 * http://www.kcc.org.nz/species/threatened.asp

From this website I learnt When people came to New Zealand they cut down the trees and burnt the land. hey did this so that they could make farms and places to build there homes. ||  || media type="gabbly" key="http%3A%2F%2Fsavenewzealandsnatives.wikispaces.com%2FKnowledge%20Saturation" width="300" height="250"