🌲Reading/Inquiry - Designed For Good!🌲

🌲Reading/Inquiry - Designed For Good!🌲

IALT: Read and understand the text (Designed for good)

Kia Ora and welcome to my blog last week and this week, the Kia Manawanui syndicate has been reading a text called Design For Good! We have been talking about Innovations and Inventors!

Designed For Good is a text about three Industrial Designers, Craig, Stu and Robbie. These three designers have been working on a Pest trap that will help our country and land. They got the idea about this when they had seen the damage cause from Possums and other pests. They all researched information and designed a trap that was self-setting and powered by compressed gas!

In NZ, we have many native animals such as Kiwi, Lesser short-tailed bat, Hector's Dolphin, Hamilton's Frog, Kea and MANY more Native animals. In NZ we have species that were introduced to NZ. These species are pests and they include Kiore, Stoats and Possums. These animals were brought to NZ with our Maori ancestors for fur, for sport and some were stowaways.

When people talk about our Native Bush they are talking about a bush, tree or even forest that was originated by NZ!  I believe it is important to look after our Native Bush because it is apart of our environment and it is apart of what makes NZ, New Zealand. I believe that if someone has a NATIVE BUSH or tree at their house or at an area around them, they should help the environment by looking after it.

Some damaged was caused before people arrived in NZ. Many, MANY YEARS ago, NZ was covered in Bush and many pests such as Deer, Goat etc. Damaged was cause when these pests started eating out of the bush, as generations passed we have Possums which definitely ruin our environment. Stoats are dangerous to NZ because they are a big threat 
to our bird population!


People do value some more then others because some native animals and non-native animals are more wild and are used to wild-life adventures. Other animals are mostly tamed and are stay at home harmless animals that most people would want around especially family.
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I hope you enjoyed my short little investigation about the Native Environment and Bush!

Question of the blog: Have you learned about Pests yet?

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Glossary:
Innovations - A product that is being re-created to make the idea better.

Inventions - A new product that has never been created before.

Compressed gas- Are gasses that are stored under the pressure of cylinders.

Lesser short-tailed bat- A Bat that is endemic to NZ and is mostly used to the forest floor (unlike some bats).

Hamilton's Frog- A frog that is primitive to NZ and is apart of the Leiopelmatidae family.

Kea- A Native bird to NZ.

Stowaways- Someone or something that secretly boards on a ship or a vehicle.

 Possums- A dangerous PEST from Australia in NZ used for fur.