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and children on our website. These visits provided some of the highlights of the tour, with a number of teachers having put significant work into preparing their classes for our visit. This enabled us to involve older children in some inspiring discussions whilst our younger audiences provided us with some enthusiastic kea songs, complete with kea masks and calls! We will be expecting as much from our adult audiences in winter of 2013! As has been the case in previous years, the tour also provided some excellent followup discussions and the chance to build relationships and collaborations for the coming year. This year we connected with local Timaru chemist, Nick Wall who we have been working with to further develop a surface repellent spray mix to dissuade kea from attacking sheep or interfering with human belongings. It is these important partnerships and collaborations which the advocacy tour has been critical at identifying and instigating that continue to be so valuable to the work that we do at the KCT. Thank you to our 2012 hosts – Department of Conservation (Twizel, Te Anau, Wanaka, Arthur’s Pass, and Hokitika), Forest & Bird (North Canterbury, Nelson, Wanaka), FMC NZ (Alpine Club Dunedin, South Canterbury Alpine club), Queenstown Kiwi & Birdlife Park, Unlimited School, Avonside School, Carew Peel Forest School, St Joseph’s School, Twizel School, Aoraki/Mt Cook School, Te Anau Primary School, Fiordland College and the Roslyn Kea Scouts.
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Photo: Dr Lorne Roberts
Photo: Tamsin Orr-Walker