Wetland Extreme Team: Animatologists tracking tunnels

The Wetland Extreme Team are eighteen Year 7 and 8 students from St Joseph's Waitara School in Taranaki, New Zealand. Our names are James, Tayla, Steven, Louise ,Madison, Isaac, Francis, Gabriel, Rose, P.J, Terina, Jamie, Iyarna, Che-Leigh, Cody, Matthew, Connor and Hayden. We will be blogging about the history, current research and future ideas for the schools wetland. All of which is hoped will make the wetland more interactive and fun for everyone to enjoy.

Working to help W.E.T achieve the mission is 60 Springs Environmental Educator Nathan Hills. 60 Springs is based at Puke Ariki and run in partnership with Shell Exploration New Zealand Limited and the Taranaki Regional Council.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Animatologists tracking tunnels

On thursday 5th of May we set some tracking tunnels.
Tracking tunnels are long boxes that have tracking cards with ink and some bait in the middle,so when a animal goes in to get the bait they get their paws wet in ink and leave prints when they exit the tunnel.
We checked the tunnels on the 12th of May. One was damaged by the rain so nothing came up. The other two had no bait but had mice prints. For the bait,we used old extra crunchy peanut butter and a bit of raw meat.
The tunnels were spaced out so they covered most of the wetland area. The wet weather has been a bit of a problem so we were praying for the sun to come out.