Report Writing by Rang a Trí

• Today Emmet (Evie and Millie’s dad) came to talk to the pupils from 3^rd to 6^th about biodiversity. (Oscar)

 

• We went to the halla to listen to Emmet talk about biodiversity. (Sam F)

 

• Biodiversity is the variety of plant and animal life on earth. (Fryderyk)

 

• People are cutting down millions and millions of trees every year to make palm oil. (Cillian)

 

• Rainforests are suffering because people are cutting down lots of trees in the Amazon Rainforest. (Zara)

 

• We learned that there are 71 types of different types of sharks living around the coast of Ireland. (Willow)

 

• Moving species to other countries is sometimes bad for native species, for example the red squirrel and the grey squirrel in Ireland. (Conor)

 

• I didn’t know that the grey squirrel came over and started taking the homes and the food that the native Irish red squirrel needs. (Rehan)

 

• I learned that the grey squirrel is bigger than the red squirrel. (Lily)

 

• I learned that coral reefs are being bleached. This is because of climate change and because the water is getting hotter.  (Ingrid)

 

• I never knew that when it gets too hot in a coral reef the coral will die and this is called coral bleaching. (Julia)

 

• I learned about this butterfly that only lives on this one type of plant and that it is smaller than the tip of your finger. (Fionn)

 

• If you get rid of this one bush that this butterfly lives on the butterfly will die. (Alex)

 

• This butterfly, the Baton Blue Butterfly, is the smallest butterfly in the world. (Qadira)

 

• You can only find this butterfly in Egypt on top of Mount Sinai. Goats were eating the plant that the butterfly lived on so they had to stop the goats from grazing where the butterfly lived.  (Jess)

• Emmet showed us a picture of a Liger and a Tion. I didn’t know about these animals.  They are cross breeds.  They don’t live very long and cannot produce babies.  (Pattharawarin)

 

• The number of species endangered or almost endangered is rising all the time. (Zarin)

 

• I was amazed to find out that 79,800 species of animal are endangered. (David)

 

• I learned that in 2012 one hundred million sharks were killed, ninety percent killed for only their fins for shark fin soup. That, in perspective, is 21 times the population of Ireland as sharks.  We learned that a bowl of shark fin soup can cost $100.  (Arlen)

 

• Shark fin soup is all for show, and has no nutrients in it. (Zak)

 

• I think this killing is gross. (Seán)

 

• Emmet loves sharks and he showed us his four favourite sharks. (Dale)

 

• At the end we watched a video called ‘How wolves change rivers’. I think it is really cool how when the wolves ate some deer who were eating all the vegetation, that the river in the Yellowstone Park changed for the better too.  (Sam T)

 

• While threats to biodiversity are all too real we recommend that everyone watches this video ‘How Wolves Change Rivers’, it shows how incredible the natural world is.

• Third to Sixth loved Emmet’s presentation. (Masha)