This is this weeks topic for our current events. Children may choose to complete it at home or school. For those children to be extended, answer the thinking questions.
Kaka population increases
March
8, 2017
South Island kākā
have made an extraordinary comeback in a Fiordland forest following a pest
eradication project.
In the mid 2000s
the kākā population in Waitutu Forest was being ravaged by stoats and possums.
Population surveys showed that males outnumbered females by an average of
six to one.
However, a
population sample taken in December last year shows a turn-around in the
parrot’s fortunes with female kākā rebounding and young birds on the rise
again.
Pest control in the
Fiordland National Park, has included localised trapping and poisoning for
stoats and possums. Planes have also applied 1080 over up to 30,000 hectares
when pest numbers have been high due to forest seeding.
Annual bird counts
at over 700 points in the forest also show an increase in other forest birds
such as robin and kākāriki.
The pest control programme was
supported by the Waitutu SILNA and the Nature Heritage Fund, which contributed
$1.7 million for pest control.
1. Who is the main person or group of people
in this news article?
2. What was the key event from the
news article?
3. Where did this event take
place?
4. When did this event take place?
I think….
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