Today we had a really interesting visitor - Stella from Northland Regional Council who came to speak to Room 3. 4 & 5 about Kauri Dieback. She spoke to us about some really interesting topics.
Did you know...
Endemic means - Only can be found in this country e.g kiwi, kukupa, moa
Native - Made it's way here on it's own
Introduced - brought to NZ & had help from humans
Fan worms are eating our native and endemic creature's food
Pollution (poo) is infecting our Moana and awa e.g ecoli in the water
Kairaru - Largest Kauri on record was found in Okaihau. It's trunk was 10 metres wide and it's height from base to top was 65 metres in length.
There are only 7% Kauri trees left
Uses of Kauri - houses, furniture, floorboards, gum ,varnish, tattoos with fish oil, toothpaste
Kauri are 250 million years
Humans have inhabited the earth for 150 000 years
The main message Whaea Stella promoted was - How important we all are. Why? Because we can be the ones to protect our Kauri from Dieback.
Who can be Kaitiaki? We all can be protectors of our Kauri trees and nature in general.
Stages of Kauri
Sapling, Ricker, Mature
Kauri dieback is a...
- phytophthora: plant destroyer
Agathidiciada - Kauri killer
There are Feeder roots, osspores, zoosspores.
Zoospore can smell the nitrogen and stops the nutrients
Key messages:
To help keep Kauri Dieback away from our Kauri you need to...
Scrub, check, spray trigene
Protect our taonga, be a kaitiaki, do what you love, keep Kauri standing - clean your boots
