Project Penguin Blog: Manly Village Public School

Project Penguin Blog: Manly Village Public School

#Taronga Zoo Sydney

Posted on 20th April 2011 by Media Relations

This blog was


written after the Project penguin introduction visit from Education Officers


Cate and Kerry from Taronga Zoo and Project officer Julie from the Northern


Beaches Learning AllianceWe learnt that in 2009, ten Little Penguins


were killed by a dog then seven more were killed last year. This is bad because


we found out that there are only 60 breeding pairs of penguins in Manly. We


also learnt that penguins come back to where they were born to breed and that


there are other conservation projects happening this year in other regions.



We are looking forward to learning


about the Little Penguins and raising awareness and teaching the community


about the penguins. We can’t wait till our excursions to Taronga Zoo and the beach


and helping to clean up the beach for the penguins.



We’re excited about designing our


projects and having the chance to be creative and making a real product for a


real audience. It’ll be great working as a group with our Mackellar Girls


mentors and then getting to see our projects displayed in the community.



If we could talk to the penguins we


would tell them that plastic bags are not food and that if they see a dog to waddle


away as fast as possible. We would ask them how they spend their day and if


they are scared of dogs without leashes?



We wish we could tell them that lots


of children in the Northern Beaches are trying to save them.



- Year 5 students from Manly Village Public Project Penguin Gallery 2011