The Long Finned Eel

Stephanie Bowman is a passionate woman from America who has taken a great interest in the New Zealand Long Finned Eels. Just yesterday, 14th of March, she came to Greytown School and told us about the Long Finned Eels, and what danger they are in from going extinct. And even worse, they are only found in New Zealand. Stephanie is an artist, and showed us her paintings and a story with them. She had puppets, that she used for props. The story was about Velvet, and her babies, and her next baby Elvis, and it was very clever of her. She showed us how the Long Finned Eels are in great danger of coming extinct, if we are not careful.

                                                                     

Stephanie's art

                                                

I thought Stephanie was a very creative and passionate person, who loved the New Zealand Eels, and couldn't bear seeing them get wiped out. She felt very strongly of them, and wanted to get the word round to the NZ folk, to let them know what danger they are in, and what we can do about it. Our syndicate is creating a banner, to attach to all the other schools banners, and she plans it to go round the Bee-Hive. It sounds very fun, and I am looking forward to doing it. I think lots of others are too.



          What can we do?
Ask people to pass on the word to friends and family
Fence off creeks so cows don’t get in and pollute the creeks.
If you catch an eel and want to release keep their slime layer intact so it can breath oxygen on land.
Don’t catch more eels than you need.
Stop commercial fishing of eels.
Don’t catch the female long finns
If you have spare time volunteer to get eels from one side of a dam to another
Don’t kill the young baby eels
Stop Pollution
Farmers need to plant trees next to creeks. Shade cuts down the pollution
Don’t catch eel with milky blue eyes they are fill of eggs and heading down stream.
Stop draining wet lands

                                                             Threats to the Long Finned Eel


Ways to get the Long Finned Eels noticed:

Mention the long finned eels on your blog
Put the link to her website
Yahoo answers
Gmail
Pass on information
Online Club
Pamphlets
Photos and videos
Near extinction
Speeches
Raise money for protection
Comments for websites
Fencing off lakes
Be careful of what you fish
Throw back eels that are a meter or more long


For more information go to: www.bowmansart.com
Or go to the blog: http://savetheeels.wordpress.com/

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