<h3>Playing our way</h3>

Kia Ora. Here we are, on islands like no others. Tips of the (mostly) submerged continent of Zealandia, in the landscape of Aotearoa / New Zealand.

From here, come my environmental games. Where we’re sometimes co-operating, sometimes competing, yet always in good heart.

I hope you’ll enjoy being gameful in our rich natural world too. Being kakariki / green, and playing our way!

Nga mihi nui. JiL Hemming. Game Designer

To save our birds, you need to trade, draw & play to create a feather cloak of 15 cards, in one bird realm: forest, settlement, sea, or extinct.

But BEWARE! Each card sports some predators – will they threaten your realm?

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- one find of moa poo found in a cave in Nelson is thought to be 8000 years old. In Flight of Pollen, fresh native pollen is carried from plant-to-plant. But in new research, it's evidence of which plants were ...
- Small things matter and small things tend to get overlooked. Insects, spiders, and crustaceans get very little attention, yet they make up half of the world’s animal biomass Insects are part of the web of life. They feed birds ...
- Culling invasive species on islands worldwide could save nearly 10% of the world’s bird, mammal, amphibian and reptile species currently on the brink of extinction. So the Guardian reported on research published in the journal Plos One. Recently I saw ...

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- Rat chases the boy in a predator game on Waiheke Island. As part of Te Ara o Kirihimete, the bowling green became a marked out rope-map of the islands in the Hauraki Gulf. Some with predators: some with no predators ...
- Playing Flight of Pollen on the Court In Term 3, we played the outdoor version of Flight of Pollen, on the court, at St Anne's School, Manurewa. Pollinators collected pollen and transported it to hula-hoop flowers; pollen crawled through one hoop, then another ...
- Otari Event 12th and 13th March 2019 organised by Enviroschools Te Upoko o Te Ika a Māui- Greater Wellington, included an outdoor pollination game. Arihia (pictured) worked on a version, based on Flight of Pollen. With the able assistance of the ...

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