Totara park & Botanical Garden trip !

Totara park & botanical gardens reflection

Introduction

On Tuesday week 2/3 we went to Totara  park and Botanical gardens to learn about Kaitiakitanga. We learned about how the Puhni stream flowed and how Botanical gardens uses stormwater .

Totara park

When we went to Totara park we split up into groups and went to find different types of vegetation. We found palm trees , Dicots , Rimu trees and different types of birds . We also looked at how the puhni stream worked . We looked at all sorts of plants and insects , and when we went to Totara it was a rainy /cloudy day. We first sat down and talked about the app SEEK It’s about taking photos of random plants and actually seeing if it is a type of plant  . We left in groups of three kahus. We went first throughout the mountain and stopped near the puhni stream. As we were walking we took photos of all sorts of plants . Most of the photos  we took gave us a result but some of them said nothing or a random plant a example: when I took a photo it gave me a different sort of plant and when someone else took the photo of the SAME plant it gave a different result .

Botanical Gardens

When we had arrived at the botanical gardens we sat and Miss Rowland called out our groups. I was in group D with Mrs Dismyer . First we did a scavenger hunt to find plants / animals / insects , that were in the alphabet we found every letter except Y M and X . After an hour of doing the scavenger hunt we swapped over to learn about how botanical gardens recycle stormwater . They collect stormwater on the reroof so when It rains the water collects on the roof and then falls into a little pond and that water flows into different parts of the pond so it keeps flowing. They do that so the water doesn’t go bad . They  reuse the water in bathrooms only .

Kaitiakitanga

Kaitiakitanga are guardians of nature  . The main aim for Kaitiakitanga is to look after and protect all of the wildlife / Vegetation  . But the thing about Kaitiakitanga not many people are helping our vegetation and wildlife so there doing cultural practices to bring it back for future kiwis and to have a sustainable future.  A person  Kaitiakitanga is a person with deep sense of the environment .

Similarity

The similarity between Botanical gardens and Totara park is that there both a park /. Gardens , they  both have large areas of vegetation and insects . Both of the areas can’t cut down trees / plants . They both have some sort of way to recycle trash around  the gardens . Other than that Botanical gardens and Totara park have not many  other similarities .