Students at Coroglen and Puriri Schools have just completed “The Whitebait Connection,” a learning programme about freshwater conservation and catchment restoration. The programme was founded in 2002 under the umbrella of the Northland-based Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust.
The programme takes a biological and ecological approach, looking at all the life forms and their relationships in and around rivers and streams. Living things like types of water bugs, species of freshwater fish and the abundance of plants in a particular catchment are being investigated.
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