Quail Island

1. What does the name Otamahua mean? Where does the name come from?
Otamahua means a place where children collected sea birds' eggs, captain mein smith

2. Where did the name Quail Island come from?
The name came from Europe

3. How big is the island?
The area is 81 hectares and a high point of of 86 metres

4. How was the island created?
The Island was created when Aoraki's grandson found Aoraki and his crew turned into stones and mourned their deaths. Aoraki's grandson made a rake and raked up all the ruble and started planting trees, putting seafood in the bays and harbours. he then put birds and shrubs on the land

5. What wildlife is presented on the island - native / introduced
Animals like black-backed/karoro, red-billed gull/tarapunga white-flippered penguins/korora terns shags, oystercatcher, fantails/piwakawaka and grey warblers/irorio are on the island.

6. Mahinga kai, food gathering was an important activity for Maori. What food did they gather from Otamahua?
Shellfish, Flax, Bird eggs, and other foods.

7. How have introduced species ( animals, birds, insects) damage the environment?
Rats and rabbits ate the most of the eggs

8.What rules does DOC created to help protect Otamahua?
To help protect Otamahua there should be no dogs every where, no littering and don't pick any flowers or any things that was planted on the island.



What is Kaitiakitanga? = Guardianship (guardian to do something)

What is sustainability? - Sustainable
-Keeping things for the next generation
-Making sure there is some left
-Replacing what we take

What is Rahui Tapu? (sacred/restrited)

Relationship with Mother Nature? (Kaitiakitanga)

My notes on the video we watched

MOTHER NATURE:
Nature doesn't need people, but people need nature.

Our future depends on our actions

Our future depends on our nature

OCEAN:
If the ocean is not preserved people will die.
People are poisoning the ocean.
The earth is almost covered by the ocean and the earth was once covered by water and the ocean can cover the earth with water again.
Humans take more than their share.

ICE:
Ice keeps the world cool.
Ice moves slowly.


RAIN FORESTS:
Rain forests leaks air.
Some plants are medicines.
People always come back for the trees - their woods.

Flowers:
Life starts with flowers.
Flowers inspired artists.
Flowers are worshiped for the looks and scent.
Foods starts from flowers.

SOIL:
Without soil humans couldn't exist.
People treat soil like a dirt.
The soil is over used.
The soil is sick because of us humans.

Relationship with Mother Nature:

Is it healthy? I think what we are doing is not healthy because, it is not good to just don't care about our Nature, we are not thinking about our future, we are not thinking about the climate change.

Is it beneficial? What we are doing to our Mother Nature is really bad. But we can get a lot of beneficial thing to the Nature such as wood, food from the trees, fresh air and a many more things.

Are we making wise choices? No, because we might have a lot of things we can get from our nature but, is we keep getting things from our Nature then we might have left with an empty planet with no food, no soil, no flowers, no ice.


We really need mother nature so let's all take care of it because if we don't take care our nature all living thing here on earth including us humans will die.