Spreading the message:

·         Design a brochure or flyer that could be posted to residents in districts and streets which are adjacent to known kiwi areas. The document should inform residents of what they can to protect the kiwi living in the nearby bush. You may wish to use software such as Publisher or another desktop design program to make a professional job of your presentation. If you live in such areas, you may wish to organise a pamphlet drop of your brochure to houses in your district.

·         Write an article for your local newspaper, describing the dangers faced by kiwi in your area, and explaining just what each person in the community can do to make the environment safer for them. Include in your article such things as general safety precautions with domestic pets, and making the public aware of dangers from other predators such as stoats and ferrets.

·         If you have access to a local radio station which allows community notices or groups to be represented and share their views ‘on air’, you may like to develop a short radio programme or broadcast describing the plight of kiwi in your area, or nationally, and what each individual can do to help address the problem.

·         Write an article and submit it to Learning Media for inclusion in the School Journal series of books. You could write is as either fiction or non fiction – from the point of view of the kiwi in the bush, a child who discovers and ‘befriends’ a kiwi, or someone who is wanting to alert others to the dangers kiwi are facing.

·         Develop a ‘WANTED” poster, advertising one of the ‘most wanted’ kiwi predators! Include on the poster details of the ‘crimes’ against kiwi the predator is alleged to have committed, details of the ‘reward’ (saving our national icon), and who people should call if they sight the ‘criminals’ in the act, or the results of their nasty deeds!

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