Charlesworth reserve

This week for CIP some of the year 7 & 8 are planning to go on a trip to Charlesworth reserve. Charlesworth reserve is parks and Gardens in Christchurch and it is only 24 minutes away from our school. The government in New Zealand has asked and other helper to plant 1 billion trees in Charlesworth Reserve by 2028. If we don't have enough trees we need in the word the carbon dioxide will invade our earth. The earth will then be hotter and soon many species animals and human will be extinct. Charlesworth reserve is a park located in bromley, in the middle of ferrymead. Charlesworth Reserve is a wetland edge walk featuring restoration planting, wetland birds and tidal pools. 

The reserve covers half the land that was drained in the 20s and it was used as pasture. 

Charles Worth reserve Is a 20-ha restored remnant salt marsh on the western edge of the Avonhealthcote Estuary in Christchurch. 

The area was drained and refilled in the 1920’s for grazing. 

In the early 1990’s the Christchurch City Council started restoring the area by creating tidal pools and planting plants. 

Charlesworth reserve was named after Captain William Charlesworth because he was the first one to step a foot on that land that land there for he owned it.

He was born in 1814 and he passed away in 1875.

 In August 2017 over 100,000 plants were planted in the Reserve by volunteers and the Christchurch City Council and Park Rangers since restoration began.

 Between November 2015 and December 2017 tracking tunnels were used to monitor small animals to give a coarse index of relative abundance. 

The presence of lizards can also be obtained by this method. 

At the same time terrestrial arthropods were monitored by using artificial habitats. 

The Tracking tunnels were baited these are the dates that they were tracked on. 

30 Nov 2015, 2 Feb 2016, 12 April 2016, 6 June 2016, 8 Aug 2016, 9 Oct 2016, 4 Dec 2016, 6 Feb 2017, 9 April 2017 and 7 Aug 2017. The tracking cards were collected the next day. Tunnels were not baited in June 2017 because of weather conditions. 

We are going up to charlesworth reserve to plant native trees so that some of our native birds come back.