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- How did the Māori people affect New Zealand and its ecosystem?
- What effect do you think millions of years of isolation had on the plants and animals in New Zealand?
- How does New Zealand depend on their environment?
- Does New Zealand have harmful animals?
- What impact did the Europeans have on NZ?
- How did the Māori protect the environment?
- Why does NZ have no mammals?
- How did animals get to New Zealand?
- Does New Zealand have animals?
- Why New Zealand is so rich?
- Is New Zealand a rich country?
- Does New Zealand have scary animals?
- Why there is no snake in NZ?
- Are there scary bugs in New Zealand?
How did the Māori people affect New Zealand and its ecosystem?
As Māori grew crops, they changed the landscape by altering soils and wetlands, and by reducing forest areas.
What effect do you think millions of years of isolation had on the plants and animals in New Zealand?
Isolated for millions of years, New Zealand's plants and animals were very vulnerable to the impact of humans. When the ancestors of Māori arrived around 1250–1300 AD, bringing rats and dogs, they started a wave of extinctions that continues today.
How does New Zealand depend on their environment?
New Zealand's economic activity is largely based on its natural environment. For example, agriculture, tourism and power generation all depend upon the environment. Despite this interdependence, in the past the environment has been viewed as a passive resource for exploitation by a boundless economy.
Does New Zealand have harmful animals?
New Zealand has no harmful animals like venomous snakes, scorpions or venomous insects, so its sole venomous native spider – the rare katipō – has almost mythical status. Since the late 19th century there have been accidental introductions of the venomous redback and white-tailed spiders from Australia.
What impact did the Europeans have on NZ?
As Europeans settled in New Zealand, they brought more changes to the remaining forests, animal diversity and landscape stability. Along with immigrants came new animals, crop plants, parasites and diseases. The remaining lowland forests and scrubland were burnt, drained, logged and cleared for farms and cropping.
How did the Māori protect the environment?
In the past, people followed traditional practices when they were hunting, fishing, growing or finding food. These helped them to care for the environment. They included: temporary bans (rāhui) on taking food from an area.
Why does NZ have no mammals?
New Zealand has almost no native mammals; its larger animal life is dominated by birds, lizards, frogs, wētā and land snails. ... For years scientists thought that many of New Zealand's life forms were primitive survivors, isolated since the country broke away from Gondwana about 85 million years ago.
How did animals get to New Zealand?
Humans first arrived via the Pacific islands, in several waves at some time before 1300 AD, bringing with them the Polynesian rat (kiore) and the domesticated dog. Europeans later brought pigs, ferrets, stoats, mice, rats, dogs, cats, sheep, cattle, and many other mammals.
Does New Zealand have animals?
New Zealand has many unique native fish, insects, birds, lizards and frogs. Our only native mammals are bats and marine mammals.
Why New Zealand is so rich?
The rate of new fortune accumulation has been steady since the Second World War. The most likely sectors for fortunes to appear in are manufacturing, and the "deal-making" industries (merchant banking, brokerage, insurance, real estate and property development). Nearly three-quarters of the fortunes were self-made.
Is New Zealand a rich country?
The economy of New Zealand is a highly developed free-market economy. It is the 52nd-largest national economy in the world when measured by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and the 63rd-largest in the world when measured by purchasing power parity (PPP).
Does New Zealand have scary animals?
There are No Dangerous Animals in New Zealand…
While New Zealand wildlife is quite safe, there is, however, three types of spider that can hurt if they bite (which is a rare occurrence): the white-tailed spider, redback spider and the katipo spider.
Why there is no snake in NZ?
New Zealand is one of several large islands around the globe where there have never been native snake populations. ... Since snakes have neither evolved nor been deposited on the islands of New Zealand, their appearance would be a threat to other local wildlife, and so they are vigorously repelled.
Are there scary bugs in New Zealand?
Aotearoa New Zealand is full of creepy crawlies, from the bush to your backyard. These include spiders, insects and other invertebrates (animals that don't have backbones).
