Recently the Healthy Environments team was in Quairading working with the year 5 class at Quairading DHS to plan for our latest Hotspot Hero book.
We have published a range of Hotspot Hero books. A Hotspot Hero is committed to working to protect the plants and animals that make the Wheatbelt, part of a global biodiversity hotspot, such a unique place to live.
A number of schools have already developed their own Hotspot Hero book including Narembeen DHS who told the story of Farmer Todd helping look after malleefowl (Farmer Todd) and “Rampaging Rabbits” from Hyden Primary School. (Rampaging Rabbits)
The Quairading students will be writing their own book about the Matchstick Banksia which is their Shire’s flora emblem. Already the students have come up with a range of actions we can take to look after this threatened species. This book will be published later this year.
In the meantime visit our web site at www.wheatbeltnrm.org.au/what-we-do/healthy-environments/hotspot-heroes to read all our other books. They are free to download and not only are the issues clearly presented but options for a way forward are also eloquently brought to life through the unfiltered view of our school kids.
