Yesterday Room 11 read the book ‘Old Blue – the rarest bird in the world’. We wrote complex sentences about this true story. Don Merton designed an innovative breeding programme that saved the Black Robins from extinction. He died last weekend aged 72. Merton was awarded the QSM, elected on to the UN Environment Programme Global 500 Roll of Honour for his "outstanding contributions to the protection and improvement of the environment", and he was named one of "100 Great New Zealanders of the 20th Century" by the NZ Listener. Room 11 got a sense of adventure and wanting to save something from reading about Don and Old Blue, and found out that every Black Robin in the world is related to Old Blue and her partner, Yellow.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Don Merton and Old Blue:
Yesterday Room 11 read the book ‘Old Blue – the rarest bird in the world’. We wrote complex sentences about this true story. Don Merton designed an innovative breeding programme that saved the Black Robins from extinction. He died last weekend aged 72. Merton was awarded the QSM, elected on to the UN Environment Programme Global 500 Roll of Honour for his "outstanding contributions to the protection and improvement of the environment", and he was named one of "100 Great New Zealanders of the 20th Century" by the NZ Listener. Room 11 got a sense of adventure and wanting to save something from reading about Don and Old Blue, and found out that every Black Robin in the world is related to Old Blue and her partner, Yellow.
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I just read your blog today and am saddened at Don Merton's passing.
ReplyDeleteHe did so much for our wildlife------ a very unassuming guy.
I purchased "Old Blue" to read to my class after visiting the Chathams a few years ago.
My last year's class wrote to him and we were delighted to receive an email.
Cheers Daphne