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Environment

The Maori people were travellers. Once they had run out of resources they moved to another island. They treat their environment terribly and they burn down trees so they can eat a particular plant called bracken fern. This addiction was really bad for the environment and also for the Maori society. If they burnt down all of the trees and forestation then they will not have any oxygen to survive but on the other hand they love to eat the bracken fern. This is still a problem in the maori society but isn’t as bad.

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The Maori people had a huge impact on their New Zealand environment after adapting their traditional Polynesian cultural beliefs to a new home. However, life in New Zealand was not identical and this caused a negative impact upon their surroundings. For example, Moa birds were endemic to the area but the Maori did not realize, so they over hunting the flightless birds and the numbers in the moa population had reached a critical mass and their conservation measures were instituted too late. The Maori invented Rahui as a form of Tapu law that was introduced to protect the environment but this law was too late for the MOAS. The Moa became an abundant and important food source for the Maori peoples. Unfortunately, the MOAS became extinct and this unique and wonderful bird will not be seen again. Consequently, Maori people had both a positive and negative impact on their environment.

What was the positive impact they had? Are all of these words your own? You have used 'endemic' and 'critical mass' out of context. Can you include your source references?

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All human societies, including the Maori culture, affect the environment they live in, which is New Zealand, their new land. The Maori continued to spread along the coastal regions, despite the colder climate and learned to hunt and fish this leads to a huge impact. Before the Europeans arrived, the Maori hunted the Moa, a large struthious flightless bird resembling the emu which supplied them with abundant food, formerly found in New Zealand. Over hunting and adaptation of the Moa’s habitat led to their extinction as shown on page 274. The Moa became an abundant and important food source, Moa bones were carved into fish hooks and pendants, and the skins and feathers were made into clothing. The extinction of the Moa led to a huge impact on New Zealand’s unique and distinctive environment.
Some good information but it could be re-ordered. Read it again and see if you think the info at the end could be better placed closer to the start.

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When the Maori’s migrated to New Zealand, they didn’t think ahead of what they were doing so it made a huge impact on the environment.

Their staple food was Bracken Fern and the Moa. The Maori’s cut/burned down trees so that Bracken Fern could grow in clear forests and they also hunted down Moas so often they became extinct. There was a Tapu made when the Moa was almost extinct. It was to not waste the other parts of the Moa that weren’t as tasty. As the Maori’s kept cutting down trees, the deforestation lead to Bracken Fern growing out of control. As a matter of result another Tapu was made to harvest what was necessary with the remaining food they had.

The Maori’s learned not to waste food and to not cut down trees so recklessly without thinking of impact on the environment.

Good job Bich Ly. Can you include your source references? Have a look at Jess G, or Jenny's or Melisha's post.

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The Maori culture was a growing and developing part of life in New Zealand. Settlements spread along the coastal regions of both islands so the Maori began to adapt to colder climates, hunt new fish and various other species of animals. For millions of years, a large flightless bird resembling the emu, also known as Moa, thrived in New Zealand. Humans killed off the giant birds by overhunting them as shown on page 274 in the year 8 History Alive textbook. The Moa became an abundant and important food source, with both the meat of the bird as well as its colossal eggs providing a lifeline for the Maori. This extinction of the Moa led to a huge impact on the New Zealand environment.
Did the extinction lead to an impact on the Maori environment or the NZ environment? Good writing overall. I always enjoy reading your paragraphs.
Thanks Mr Barnes.

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The Maori people weren't that bad at managing their environment, but still they didn't know how to mange  their environment properly, now days people know how to be careful with our environment for example the Moa, a Moa was a type of animal that looked like an emu but an emu that was dumb. From this experience that we have seen, we have learned not to kill that much animals or else they'll go extinct just like the Moa. The Māori people like to eat this creature a lot, but as time pass the population of the Mao's were decreasing, this was because the Māori people ate so much of it that with their lack of knowledge the population of the moa's were decreasing, so they made a rule. It lasted a little bit, but since this creature was so delicious they couldn't resist. So they began to hunt for it again, and then eventually this creature became extinct. By now if the Maori people didn't eat it a lot we might have had a chance to see one, but now we only see it in drawings. (History Alive year 8 pg 274)
You have quite a few grammar and spelling mistakes. Be sure to proofread. Also, can you identify where you have very long sentences and add a full stop or two? Plus, don't forget to reference your sources in your paragraph (See Jess G, or Melisha or Jenny's post).

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The Maori were really effective in managing the New Zealand Environment but also had a really huge impact on it. Maori continued to live according to their ancient Polynesian customs and traditions and hunting for animals for example the Moa a type of emu that wasn't very smart and fish was a big trend in Maori life but because this made a huge impact on the environment ,they invented Rahui  is a form of Tapu a sacred law that the Maori used to limit resource use. For example, Rahui could be imposed over and area to prevent the gathering of food while the land recovered. Unfortunately Rahui came too late for the Moa which made a negative impact on the environment. This is because with both the meat of the bird as well as its large eggs it would have provided a lifeline for the Maori. To conclude with Maori had huge impacts on the environment both good and bad.
Ok, pretty good Sesait. Can you include your source references in your paragraph? Have a look at Jess G or Jenny or Melisha's post for an example of how to do that.

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the Maori people were very dumb during that time of age, the Maori people found out a way to capture and eate. that source of food was called moas, moas were strange creatures that didn't think ahead. The people in the villages capture many, many more Mao's until there were very little of them so they decided to make some rules that could help the Moa's to regenerate back to a mass population, but the source of food was too yummy for the people so they put the Maos to extinction. the environmental theme of the Polynesians was that

Junior, do you think it is appropriate to use the word 'dumb' in this context? Can you refer to a source when quoting your evidence?

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The Moari people had alot of food from the Moa's, thats why they're extinct and they wasted a lot of food and use ful resources like feathers to rot and turn disgusting. This was one of the reasons why the Moari people created rules. The Moari people did a lot of positive and negative things

William, be sure to writ 'a lot' rather than 'a lot.'
Are you able to rewrite your Point to include a statement about the Maori people and their reliance on the Moa for food? Then you can, in your next sentences,

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When the Maori people migrated to New Zealand, it was a big change for them. The climate, the food and the land were all a big change for them. Their staple food when they were in New Zealand was not only eating the Bracken fern (which they loved) but hunting the Moa and the Haast's Eagle. They basically hunted those animals to extinction. The Maori then made a huge impact on New Zealand. When they arrived, they made actions that resulted in a positive or negative event. An example of a positive event for them was protecting their valuable resources from predators ( As read and seen in History Alive Year 8 - Pg. 274)

Another positive event they did was that they learned to limit their resource use, or as the Maori called it: Tapu. They learned this after hunting down the Moa and Haast's Eagle to extinction and the limited food they had left. (See Pg. 274 - Paragraph 3 in History Alive 8)

Good Point Jess. Can you fix your second sentence? It is a fragment. Good referencing of you evidence. What is it called when they limited resource use?

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This is the problem which deforestation caused in New Zealand and also lead to a negative environmental impact on plants and even animals.
Who does this post belong to? Reaveal yourself phantom poster!

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The maloti times did a lot of positive things to the environment, but as well as that a lot of negative. Deforestation was done by the Maoris to make the Bracken  fern growing in cleared forests, the deforestation lead to a decrease in the amount of plant life found in New Zealand

Hi Nic. What is 'maloti?' Can you provide a source reference for the evidence you have provided here?

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The Maori people had a large impact on the enviroment of New Zealand a negative impact the Maori had was that they had hunted the Moa into extinction. When the Maori first migrated to New Zealand they had to adapt to the climate, animals, resources and their surroundings, the Moa is a native flightless bird to New Zealand that is now extinct because of the Maori (pg 274  history alive textbook supports this). The Maori hunted the Moa in to extinction because of their lack of knowledge that the Moa took a whole year before they were born. Even though the Maori did create tapu around this animal it was already to late, the bird had already died out. If the Maori had more information about this native bird and had acted sooner, generations today would have been able to see this beautiful creature.
Ok. It would be good to explain Tapu in this paragraph. Assume that a reader is not familiar with all the vocabulary we have been studying.