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Our LEOTC Education Programme offers fun, interactive, hands-on inquiry based activities

 

EcoWorld’s knowledgeable staff strive to give you outstanding, intimate experiences. We help you discover, have fun, sharing with you some of New Zealand's amazing native animals that live in our beautiful Marlborough Sounds.  

 

• Adaptable to teacher and student needs. We work with you to develop further learning opportunities

• Students gain knowledge and understanding about many aspects of our unique Sounds environment

• Provide positive environmental experiences, designed to enthuse students about our natural world

• In all programmes students are involved in interactive, hands on and enquiry-based activities. 

 

Learning Outcomes 

• Explore and gain knowledge about the natural history of the Marlborough Sounds and its biodiversity

• Identify past and present threats to the Marlborough Sounds ecosystem

• To suggest ideas and actions we can all do to help keep the Marlborough Sounds ecosystem healthy 

 

EcoWorld Aquarium (1.5 hrs) 

•Tuataras - New Zealand’s very rare “living fossil”  •Little Blue Penguins - Wildlife Rehabilitatio  Refuge

•Giant Weta - Maori “God of ugly things”              •Seahorses - NZ pot-bellied seahorses

•Giant Squid “Monster of deep” (preserved 5m) •Red & Yellow Kakariki - endangered native parrots •Powelliphanta - giant land snails,                        •Fish - species from the Marlborough Sounds

•Geckos, and skinks, frogs, turtle refuge etc.         •Orca and Hectors Dolphin - life size models

•Touch pool, kid’s area, movies, shells, displays and more…

 

Important Visitor Information

Opening hours Daily  9.30am - 7pm Summer,  9.30am - 5pm Winter
Location - 85 metres from the InterIsland Ferry Terminal

Bookings and Payment.  7 days before your visit to gain the group benefits